#children’s series

[dailybigbro]

Today’s Big Bro is Oobi! He loves his little sister!

[elphin365]

Another childhood favorite

The Big Comfy Couch (Loonette, Molly and the Dust Bunnies) 1992 PBS (7seasons) Free to watch on Tubi.

[thatfantasylovingdork]

Ugh, there should be a name for that feeling you get when you read the penultimate book in a series and it makes your heart so heavy knowing there's only one more and after that it's gone. I just listened to book 7 of Artemis Fowl and there's only one more book and oof I'm already heartsore.

Actually, I think anyone reading this would like it a lot! It's a fun blend of scifi, fantasy and thriller, there's awesome characters (including some very badass ladies), the plots always leave you thinking 'how are they gonna get out of THIS ONE', and I love it so much. They get even better as they go on. It's a kids' series, but it doesn't feel like one, which I suppose is a sign of a well-written children's series. :P

Also, the way I feel about the series is pretty similar to how some people feel about Harry Potter, so if you know anyone who wants something similar without supporting JK Rowling, go ahead and recommend Artemis Fowl to them!

But whatever you do, DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE. I heard it sucks and isn't like the books at all, plus they whitewashed my favorite character. :(

[jjspina]

Children’s Series for Ages 5-8 - Bedtime Stories!

[really-random-writings]

You know those books that blossomed your love for reading?

Mine is the May Bird series by Jodi Lynn Anderson. It a three book trilogy about a 10 year old girl who falls through a portal to the Ever After (world of the dead) and is trying to find her way back home to Briery Swamp. Along the way she meets, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and so many nasty creatures. Making friends along the way.

Each book has a map of the Ever After in the front of it. And I love the series so much that I complied all the different places featured in each into my own full cohesive map of the Ever After (pictured above). I also own both the series with the original cover art and the modern version.

For anyone who loves a FMC, children’s chapter books, or the spooky and weird I definitely suggest this book series.

What was the book/series that sparked your childhood, or adult, love of books?

[mo-mode]

Percy seeing an old satyr that is a completely different race than his best friend and saying with his whole chest “Man, Grover got really old” is the FUNNIEST FUCKING THING IN THIS EPISODE FIGHT ME I AM RIGHT

[artalfons]

i imagine this is how remake part 3 is going to start.

[blueflipflops]

Reblog for bigger sample size!

[amoderndreamletdown]

Children's novels are so funny because a character can die brutally but as long as nobody swears it's ok

[duckysprouts]

big brother part 7

[bimafe]

one night, percy slipped out of his cabin, unable to sleep because of nightmares. he was planning to go to the lake when he noticed a hunched figure sitting by apollo's cabin. as he approached, percy realized it was will.

will cried in percy's arms that night, telling him how tired he was. tired of being the head healer, tired of being in charge of the cabin. he just wished he had big brothers again. and percy realized how early will had lost his big brothers, through percy's own fault. how early will had basically lost almost all of his siblings.

[suntails]

guess how much i love you?

[literally-literary-charlie]

i think we should normalize demigods growing up to be average people. bc rick really went out there and said george washington and harriet tubman were demigods but just think about this for a second-

"ah yes that gas station attendant is a son of hermes, god of travelers"

there's simultaneously so much and so little potential here

[writeitinsharpie]

i have a thought about pjo that i can't quite articulate but it goes along the lines of:

athena gave annabeth as a gift to frederick because she liked his search for knowledge. in athena's eyes, any action of annabeth's reflects herself, which is why annabeth 'embarrassing' her had such strong consequences

poseidon fell in love with impertinent, stubborn sally jackson. percy wasn't a gift to her - he is a cumulation of all of her stubborn, steadfast love.

why wouldn't poseidon still love and aid percy when all of percy's insolence is why he loved sally in the first place?

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

The funny thing about the PJO cabin system is that everyone's always all 'oh the twelve' this and 'the twelve' that but that's absolutely not even remotely accurate. To start, right off the bat it's thirteen, not twelve, because they don't count Hades. But not really because before Percy, there were no big three kids, so we're down to ten active cabins already but it's actually eight because Artemis and Hera don't make demigods.

And of those eight, Mr. D is stuck at camp (thus not really making new demigods all that often) and his only two kids don't even sleep in a cabin, they sleep in the Big House with him.

So, pre-Percy, there are seven active cabins at Camp Half-Blood:

Glee club, the Jocks, the Nerds, the Geeks, the Farmers, the 'Sketchy Kids' and the Popular Kids.

Or, in other words, the Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus, Demeter, Hermes (and the unclaimed kids) and Aphrodite cabins.

What's cool is that you can already see the cabin dynamics in the show. For example, the Athena cabin allies with the Hermes cabin for the numbers. The Hermes kids plus all the unclaimed kids? It's the biggest cabin in the camp by far. It's a battle strategy. Luke and Annabeth's close relationship is just the cherry on top for Annabeth. It'll be really cool to see how the show develops the differences in the cabins during the series.

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!