Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

Considering how much how I love reading I am a little stunned (little?), that I haven't really made more of one of my favourite topics - books. The pictures below just show a few of what my 9-year old is reading now and has been reading over the last two years. I don't know if you can tell, but we love the series!  Bailey School Kids, Magic Tree House, Boxcar Children, Magic School Bus, How to Train your Dragon, Lightning Thief, Mysterious Benedict Society, Inkheart, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, anything Star Wars - plus assorted stories I've been trying to get him to read.  We've mutually agreed that since some of the later Harry Potter books are a bit dark, he doesn't need to get into those just yet. We are so blessed that Lucas loves to read, we hope we can continue to feed his love of reading, for ideas and for entertainment. At the same time, who knows what he is learning or remembering what he reads! And while the books we get for Lucas are...

And by colour I mean race. I am busy compiling a library for Lucas (poor Lucas) for when he gets older. One of the books I've picked which I loved, is the the second of a series, Dolphin Song by Lauren St. John . I read a review of this book, and the reviewer didn't give the book as good a rating as others did. One of his criticisms was that although the book was set in South Africa, the heroine was of European descent. "Would it have been so hard to make her African?" was his lament. It made me stop and wonder. I never really consider race when I read (unless that is part of the plot). When I was growing up, I went up in a Wishing Chair and had adventures, I solved mysteries and had adventures (Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Famous Five, Secret Seven) I invented things and had adventures ( Tom Swift ). It didn't matter that the protagonists were Caucasian in all the books I read. When I read - it was me. Perhaps because it was my multi-racial environment, but it neve...