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[b:A House Is a House for Me 833171 A House Is a House for Me Mary Ann Hoberman https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1178755406l/833171.SX50.jpg 2645610] is superior to this, but I think that this book does a good job of demonstrating that things change and language can explain/show that change, eg branches are branches until they come off the tree and then they are sticks.With a good guide this can be expanded to have kids generate other associated words/concepts, eg twigs, logs, wicker, wood, etc.Or towards the end of the book, I was sad that the book said something like “Day is day until it is dark, then it is night”. If I were reading that I'd ask kiddos to name all the parts of the changing light: sunset, dusk, twilight, etc.
‘Once it had been determined that the girl was not a recent murder victim, the policemen relaxed. The chief asked Cillian a single question: “You're going to keep her, then?”'
What?! But then again after reading Caitlin Doughty's ‘From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death' I recall that there are other views on corpses.
‘Gillian Eddowis was on a party line with her three sisters. She tucked the phone under her chin and took the ruby kettle off the range, opening a window to shoo the blue steam free. In the living room, roars of studio laughter erupted from the television; Cillian and the Bog Girl were watching a sitcom about a Canadian trailer park. Their long silences unnerved her; surely they weren't getting into trouble, ten feet away from her? She had never had cause to discipline her son. She wouldn't know where to begin. He was so kind, so intelligent, so unusual, so sensitive—such an outlier in the Eddowis family that his aunts had paid him the modern compliment of assuming that he was gay.'
‘ “I am hers, and she is mine,” he announced. “I have dedicated myself to learning everything about her.”
A sighing spasm of envy moved down the popular girls' table—what boy alive would say this about them? A miracle: nobody mocked Cillian Eddowis. They were all starving to be loved like this.'
Quite enjoyed the end where the crew of Serenity attempt to buy time from their captors by arguing about who should be killed first, by degree of virtue.
Made me think of The Hobbit.
Also loved the word layouts.
The story seemed weak in areas, however the characters remained the best part.
I was thankful in some scenes that they all referred to each other by name because sometimes it was unclear who people were.
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