Unknown Books? - Let's Read Them Club! discussion

Hello everyone! The winner for July's theme for children's books is Family Situations! So feel free to vote for the three books you wish to discuss during July!

1. Klutz by Henrik Drescher

2. McFig and McFly: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge, and Death by Henrik Drescher

3. Weird Parents by Audrey Wood

4. The Trouble with Mom by Babette Cole

5. Louanne Pig in the Perfect Family by Nancy Carlson

6. Not So Fast, Songololo by Niki Daly

7. The Bunyans by Audrey Wood

8. The Trouble with Gran by Babette Cole

9. The Trouble with Grandad by Babette Cole

10. Think Cool Thoughts by Elizabeth Goodwin Perry

11. Sophie and Rose by Kathryn Lasky

12. The Secret of Your Name: Proud to Be Métis by David Bouchard

13. Up Home by Shauntay Grant

14. The Chinese Violin by Madeleine Thien

15. I Love Saturdays y Domingos by Alma Flor Ada

16. Oma's Quilt by Paulette Bourgeois

17. Applesauce Season by Eden Ross Lipson

18. The Sugaring Off Party by Jonathan London

19. Sugaring by Jessie Haas

20. Sugarbush Spring by Marsha Wilson Chall

Here are my three books:

Klutz

McFig and McFly: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge, and Death

Weird Parents

My library has none of these books, and I also think it would have been better to have had a bit more of a choice. Why, for example, have three books by the same author? As ILL is not working until the postal strike is over with, I am most probably not going to be able to join ext month.

Also, I think maybe it would be a good idea to have 20 instead of 10 books to choose from next tim. That way, there is at least more of a chance that the library has some of the books, my library has none of the books listed.

I was thinking about adding 20 books instead of 10 so we can have a variety, but I can't think of anymore books that fit with the family theme. Do you know anymore books with a family theme that we can share with the group?

Ronyell wrote: "I was thinking about adding 20 books instead of 10 so we can have a variety, but I can't think of anymore books that fit with the family theme. Do you know anymore books with a family theme that we..."

Let me look at the bookshelves, I think there are quite a few that would work. Family is such a large and diverse theme. I will check and suggest some titles.

Here are a few more suggestions for family type stories. Some of these, of course, also have different themes, but family relationships figure prominently.

Sophie and Rose (about a girl and her doll, but the doll had been her mother's and grandmother's)

The Secret of Your Name: Proud to Be Métis (very poignant in that for the longest times, the First Nations grandmothers of the Métis were ignored, even denigrated in favour of the more "acceptable" European bloodlines).

Up Home (very much a paean to a happy childhood and close family relationships)

The Chinese Violin (the father/daughter relationship is very moving)

I Love Saturdays y Domingos (multicultural, but above all shows a little girl's loving relationship with her paternal and maternal grandparents, who might be from different cultures, but are really not all that different)

Oma's Quilt (lovely and heartbreaking story, but the quilt help Oma move from her house to an assisted living retirement home)

Applesauce Season (maybe about food, but mostly about a close family, the young boy makes applesauce with grandma, and it is the father who makes waffles)

The Sugaring Off Party (a happy family reunion and party, even with misbehaving twins at the end of maple syrup season)

Sugaring (another wonderful book about maple syrup, but also about close relationship between a little girl and her grandfather)

Sugarbush Spring (the whole extended family helps with sugaring and enjoys participating in the sugaring process, maybe about maple syrup, but so much more as well)

Thank you so much Gundula! I'll add it to the list!

I LOVED Babette Cole's The Trouble with Gran, so I'd love to read the other two books by her on the list. I haven't read Weird Parents or Klutz, so I vote for them as well.

My three votes go to


The Secret of Your Name: Proud to Be Métis

Up Home

Oma's Quilt

Here are my 3 votes:

Weird Parents

Sophie and Rose

The Trouble with Mom

The three I have easily available (and thus get my vote) are:

The Bunyans by Audrey Wood
I Love Saturdays y Domingos by Alma Flor Ada
Oma's Quilt by Paulette Bourgeois