Book Review: Bringing up Bébé

According to Pamela Druckerman, French children are, for the most part, well-behaved angels, tiny ambassadors of good manners and self-control to the world, and it all has to do with the way the French parents raise them.  I don't know if that's true or not, never having been to France myself, but I decided to suspend my disbelief and just go with it for the course of this book.  And honestly, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, though there were a few passages that left me with the momentary urge to chuck it out a window.

Farewell, James.

After a bit more than a week of flying peaches, giant insects, and angry cloudmen, we have finished reading Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, our first official school read-aloud.  Syd loved it, and part of the reason we finished so much more quickly than I'd planned is because she begged and whined until I'd read, on average, four or five chapters a day, at least.  If we keep up this pace, we'll be through the list I'd planned for the entire year within a few months.