Nine!

My boys are celebrating their NINTH birthday today. Nine! I can hardly believe it. Can you guess what I got them for their birthday?

CHARLIE BONE AND THE INVISIBLE BOY, by Jenny Nimmo

THE MONSTER’s RING, by Bruce Coville
(inscribed by the author “May the powers bright smile on all you do!”)

and

THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET, by Brian Selznick

DRAGON DRAWING BOOK, by Ralph Masiello
(inscribed by the author “Dream Big! Draw Big!”)

Happy Birthday boys!

(I can see, by the way, that the day is quickly coming when these two will know more than me about everything. Perhaps it is already here? They just showed me how to do some funky font magic with Microsoft Word. And then they nearly died laughing when I told them why I didn’t know how to do it myself: they didn’t teach kids about Microsoft Word when I was in third grade … because it hadn’t been invented yet!)