I got this out for Mike to read to Natalie just based on the title. It is very cute. Some of the situation pictured in the book is perfect for our family, and some of it is not. The first page is perfect, but their being an older child and that mother already being asleep when the father gets...
Dealing with the rope round his chest would be harder. He would have to wait till the sea covered it. And he still had to work out what to do about Rurik. “I’m sorry, Gunnar,” Rurik said suddenly. “You don’t deserve to die like this.” “I don’t intend to,” muttered Gunnar. The ships in the harbour...
JOHN FOREST’S ROOM—END OF THE DAY “YOU DON’T KNOW NOTHING. I live in two different worlds, two separate worlds. You don’t know. What you teach me is one world. You have any idea what it’s like in my house? You have any idea what it’s like on my street? No! Jeez. You know I see your white world, b...
Until Antony’s funeral speech, the people had been frightened by what had happened, uncertain what to believe or who to support. But Antony had made things easy. Now they were sure Caesar had been a hero, and that the plotters should pay dearly for what they’d done. The mobs knew where Brutus and...
The rain held off for the first hour, the grey clouds breaking up to let a weak sun through from time to time, and some of the lads said it definitely felt a bit warmer, a hint of spring in the air. Then a fine drizzle started, and before long they were all wet through. After the second hour Capt...