With the Seven Year Old: The High Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash

My seven year old and I are currently reading (and loving) The High Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash. This book is gorgeous, right down to the tactile piece of the puzzle, and that is definitely what led to me pulling it down from the shelves and perhaps to my son choosing it to read first after I fanned out his bedtime story options on the coffee table.

We're a few chapters in, and so far, so good. I saw that it was rated as 9+, but he is following it easily and completely engaged.

He studies the pictures for ages.

My husband is currently reading him The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander. (We sometimes end up having a book per parent if there is something one of us particularly wants to read with him, and my husband is reliving his childhood with this choice, I think, having just finished The Book of Three with him recently.) I hear lots of begging for storytime to go on longer when it is his turn, so it seems to be a hit.

Hi!

I have two boys, and those two boys (ages 5 and 7) have four ears through which I pump stories daily. If it sounds like I am exaggerating, I'm not: We live across the street from a library on purpose. The only time we are not in the middle of a book is the rare time when we've just finished one and haven't already started another.

Since I am a Library Person, I regularly get asked to recommend books for my friend's kids, and so I decided to start writing it all down: What we're reading, what I think, what they think, and what's next. So here goes.