We missed you at the birthday party!

If you were happily able to attend Redeemed Reader’s 10th birthday celebration, you might not have been able to take notes fast enough. If you missed it, here’s a brief summary of a delightful conversation. We’ve listed the books mentioned by the team as well as inspiration from the friends who joined us.

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Janie’s childhood favorites

• The Golden Egg Book
• The Silver Sword

Betsy’s childhood favorites

• The Secret Garden
• Not the same Secret Garden, but in case Betsy feels like adding color to the black and white illustrations again…here’s an alternative.
• Chronicles of Narnia

Megan’s childhood favorites

• Frances books by Russell Hoban (note: some of these have been made into easy readers, and they are definitely not equal to the original picture books. A Bargain for Frances was originally written as an easy reader, so that’s fine.)
• The King’s Stilts
• Bartholomew and the Oobleck
• Lois Lenski books also two reprints at Purple House Press

Hayley’s childhood favorites

• I Love Guinea Pigs
• Corgiville Fair
• Blue Fairy Book
• Nose for Trouble
• Redwall

Trivia answers

• Janie’s very first post
• Janie’s first book review
• Betsy and Megan’s first collaborative post
• Megan’s happy result of that first post
• Hayley’s first post
• The story and author that inspired the name of our membership

Books our guests have either bought or checked out from the library as a result of reading our reviews

• Vanderbeekers
• Green Ember
• Mistmantle
• Lost in the Pacific, 1942
• The Arrow and the Crown
• Everything Sad is Untrue
• Things Seen from Above
• Home is In Between
• Just Like That

A couple of memorable interviews

• Daniel Nayeri
• Jill Morgan

Scott O’Dell Historical Fiction Award

Master list of Bible reviews

Requests for the shop

• Coffee mugs (nice pottery ones)
• Book bags
• T-shirts
• Socks
• Lapel pins
• Laptop/water bottle stickers
• Summer reading t-shirts

Ideas from our guests for encouraging family members and friends to read when there are so many things to do online:

• Suggestions in The Enchanted Hour
• Give the kids choices
• Family read-aloud, especially Dad reading
• Have books everywhere in the house
• Shelf with books face-out
• Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin, graphic novels, picture books (don’t set the bar too high)
• Audiobooks
• Tasty food, chocolate, mealtimes (especially when littles are strapped in their seats!)
• In lieu of birthday or valentine cards, give a book and write a note inside
• Raising Wild Readers review

Recommendations for early readers

• More than a book list, here’s a whole category of easy readers!
• See the Cat: Three stories about a dog. Starred review of a recent Geisel award winner
• Nurturing a Young Reader’s Literary Tastes

Possibility of an online book club?

Would anyone else be interested if we develop an online book club down the road?

Join the conversation in the comments below! What would you add to any of the above topics?