Frederick by Leo Lionni

This is the second picture book I'm reading between the Culture novels. After this, it gets a lot harder.


Frederick was slightly more interesting than the previous Leo Lionni book because Fredrick has an implied "and then everyone died because talking cannot substitute for food for the last month of winter."

Pages: 32

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni

 I'm reading the Culture books by Ian M. Banks right now. I figured out that there were eight books in the series and rushed out to the library almost immediately. While I am enjoying the stories, I do feel like I should take some sort of break. I asked Clay to pick out books of his to read between the Culture books. Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse was the first. Certainly I would not normally read a child's book of this level, it does seem like the sort of thing I would read to my nephew if I weren't already reading him The Nation by Terry Pratchett. These pages should hardly count, but I'm going by Amazon.com pagecount instead of trying to find an e-book and determining the word count.

Pages: 32