Hello, everyone! Time to begin year four of my book-a-week challenge! I can't believe our little guy is starting 3rd grade this week (virtually, but still counts). Also, our youngest little girl is now one! Crazy how time flies.
Anyway, here's the first book for my fourth year:
Harriet the Spy
By Louise Fitzhugh
The kids and I finished this book the day before my son’s classes started. I had never read the book before, but I vaguely remember liking the movie and starting a journal/diary after I saw the movie. Strangely enough, our five year old has started actually writing in a journal after reading the book as well. She had already been drawing photos like crazy in different notebooks we bought her, but now she says she's being a spy and writing letters and "words", even though she only knows how to spell a few words.
If you don't know the plot of the novel, it's the story of a wealthy girl from New York City who is constantly writing in her notebook, and when all of her very accurate albeit not the nicest of observations come out, everyone gets upset. Harriet is very smart and well-spoken, but she's also self centered and gets herself into some scraps.
The kids and I really enjoyed the book. We listened to the story in the car, and when we had to return the audio book to the library the kids were very bummed. Luckily we had a physical copy, so I read them the rest of the book.
I would definitely recommend the book.
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