Braving Boys

Bear and the Cow / By Danny

People sometimes ask me when I’m going to write a book, and I always say I’m not sure I want to. I mean, all that work. It just seems so daunting.

Maybe I should follow in 6-year-old Danny’s footsteps, because the other day, he said he was going to write a book, and, well, he just plopped down and wrote one!

“Bear and the Cow” (he is both author and illustrator) goes like this:

Bear and the Cow

Bear and cow are walking.

Suddenly they saw a fox and they ran away.

They ran as fast as they could and the cow got lost in the woods.

Bear got lost.

Then they got saved.

The end.

"Cat Nights" by Jane Manning

Danny and I read a cute little book last night, and sandwiched inside the covers of this library find is an old Irish legend. We thought it was fitting, then, that we tell you about both the book and the legend (because good kid books are kind of hard to come by, you know, and because it is almost time for that special Irish holiday).

The Book: “Cat Nights” by Jane Manning. Felicity loves living as a witch by day and a cat by night. She can’t turn herself into a cat for too many nights, though, because if she does, she’ll become a cat forever. Does Felicity choose the forever life of a witch or a cat? You’ll have to read to find out!

The Legend: The phrase “cat nights” came about because apparently, a witch could turn herself into a cat 8 times, then she could still return to her witchy self. But if she turned a 9th time, there was no going back. That’s where “cat has nine lives” comes from. And since cats like to prowl around on hot, summer nights (like in August), nights at that time of year are referred to as “cat nights.”

Yep, we liked this book. Check it out, because you might, too.