The sleeping beauty mercer mayer
John D Fitzgerald writes as the little brother who both admires and suffers from the scheming escapades of his too-clever big brother Tom (the Great Brain).
#The sleeping beauty mercer mayer series#
These are the battered paperbacks with softened edges and musty scents that keep my kids and their favorite fuzzy blankets company on a gray day.Ī cherished series from my youth, The Great Brain is a very funny collection of stories, loosely based on the author’s childhood in turn-of-the-20th-century Utah.
They are all voracious readers too, and we’ve put together a too-long list of our combined favorites here to share. I’ve been collecting books since I was a kid and love sharing them now with my own four kids. It was from my squishy beanbag reading spot as a child that I first experienced Victorian England, the American frontier, Prince Edward Island, turn-of-the-century New York City and fantasy worlds of elves, dragons and wizards. The books that kids read in grade school – when they are discovering reading and the faraway worlds that books open up for them – are the books that become cherished, comforting childhood friends.