My BUSY Week

Hello Kids,
I have not written anything new for a while because I've been super busy. Last week I went to the town of Gloucester (right near the beach) every day and went to school! I took a class about how to make all kinds of books, even books like the ones in our library. It was really fun and I have many ideas about how we might make books together at Plympton School next fall. I was thinking that making a book makes you want to write a book.
I had a friend visiting me this weekend from California. I took her out for dinner on Friday night and we ran into Elijah and his family and I was delighted to see that he had TWO BOOKS with him at the restaurant. There's a well-read guy!
I have also been busy reading the new Harry Potter book. My son Rob is a teenager and he and I went to Harvard Square in Cambridge last Friday at midnight to get the final book in this series that we have been reading together since Rob was starting third grade. We have been sharing the book. Rob is almost finished and I am on page 526. I am going to read more today. Yesterday some friends of ours had a Harry Potter trivia contest at their cookout. I didn't do as well as I'd hoped, but Rob did really well. Rob says if you finish Harry Potter, he recommends the Inkheart books by Cornelia Funke, and ANYTHING by Diana Wynne Jones. I think these are great choices too.
Write back and tell me about your busy summer!
Ms. Paradis