what we're reading

Here are some of the books we've been reading over the last 2 or 3 weeks. I was going to list them individually, but there's rather a lot, so I won't! Mostly, they speak for themselves (and a couple speak twice, where I have accidentally included them in more than 1 photo!!) ....

Obviously, we are getting through a lot of books as they are mostly fairly short and easy to read. Tess is choosing longer books at the library, but often we end up reading a few pages of each as she wants to read them all, rather than sticking with one to the end - so I've only included those that we are actually getting through in the images. The following book is the longest book we have read (and at 270 pages/52 chapters, it is certainly quite chunky!). We are nearly at the end of it, and have really enjoyed it.....

On a recent trip to the library, we were looking in the children's reference section, and Tess decided she wanted to learn more about Romans, so chose the following book on Julius Caesar ....

Tess & Brodie have also recently got into audio books, and we have been listening to these in the car and campervan. This is turning out to be a real bonus, as we're listening to some quite lengthy stories (Tom's Midnight Garden is nearly 4 hours long, and Dog Friday, which we listened to last month was a similar length!) and some great books, which would be beyond us if we were simply reading the books at home (saves my voice too!!). The only problem is that if we have an adult passenger in the front, they want to talk to me, but I'm trying to listen to the story too!!! Here are the ones we've been listening to this month ........