I’ve always loved sharing my love of reading, and now in the classroom, I get to share it with my students every day. With each story, I hope I’m sowing seeds of hope, trust, and bookish love – because when these seeds take root, learning grows, self-worth blooms, and positivity spreads. This week, our story garden begins with Seedfolks, and grows to heights and across valleys!
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Seedfolks and More
Seedfolks
In Seedfolks, Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden’s founding and first year. The book’s short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country.
(1 & 2) Book Beginnings and First Line Friday
BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY is hosted by Rose City Reader. What book are you happy about reading this week? Please share the opening sentence (or so) on BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY! Add the link to your blog or social media post and visit other blogs to see what others are reading.
Happy Friday and welcome to the FIRST LINE FRIDAY, hosted by Reading is My Superpower! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line.
I stood before our family altar. It was dawn.
3 Friday 56
THE FRIDAY 56 is hosted by by Anne at HeadFullofBooks. To play, open a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on your e-reader). Find a sentence or two and post them, along with the book title and author. Then link up and visit others in the linky.
People just appeared, people you didn’t know were there. Royce was like that.
4 Book Blogger Hop
The purpose of THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, and befriend other bloggers. THE BOOK BLOGGER HOP is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.
If you had to, would you pass your book collection on to someone special? If not, what would you prefer your family, or friends do with your books after you’re gone?
To my family. Maybe they might not read them all, but they’ll understand the love behind each cover, and hopefully bring them happy memories years down the road.
5 Six Degrees of Separation 🙂
Wuthering Heights – > The Eyre Affair -> The Shadow of the Wind -> The Wind in the Willows –> Skunk and Badger –> Sam and Dave Dig a Hole –> Lullaby Valley –> Wuthering Heights
This month’s Six Degrees begins with Wuthering Heights, one of the few #6Degrees starter books I’ve actually read (though it’s now just a faint memory).
The Pairs
Wuthering Heights -> The Eyre Affair
Link: Brontë authors
We begin on the windswept moors with Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, a novel famous for its stormy passions and equally stormy weather. Staying in the Brontë neighborhood took me to The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. This one is a delightfully imaginative novel in which literary detectives and time travel collide – taking us inside the pages of Jane Eyre (another Bronte book).
The Eyre Affair -> The Shadow of the Wind
Link: Meta-literary, book-about-books vibes
From one bookish mystery to another, we step into The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. This really cool story celebrates the magic of books through the mysterious Cemetery of Forgotten Books, reminding us that stories can haunt us long after we close the cover.
The Shadow of the Wind -> The Wind in the Willows
Link: The word ‘wind’ in the title
Keeping the breeze in our titles, the word wind carries us to the classic The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, where Mole, Rat, and Toad bring humor and warmth to their riverside adventures.
The Wind in the Willows –> Skunk and Badger
Link: Animal friends and woodland adventures
Animal companions lead nicely to another memorable pair in Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake. This charming story about an unlikely house-sharing duo proves that friendship sometimes arrives in the most unexpected forms.
Skunk and Badger –> Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Link: Odd couples and Jon Klassen
From one odd couple to another, we meet the determined diggers in Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen. Sam and Dave dig and dig in search of something spectacular, heading steadily downward in the process.
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole –> Lullaby Valley
Link: Down in the hole, a valley!
All that digging takes us naturally to lower ground—a peaceful setting like Lullaby Valley by Katherine Murray, a gentle picture book filled with music and calm.
Lullaby Valley –> Wuthering Heights
Link: Opposites attract
And from that quiet valley, we circle back to the opposite landscape entirely: the stormy heights of Wuthering Heights, bringing our Six Degrees journey full circle.
And Now, the End of This Post
Dear reader, which books would you add to your own Six Degrees chain? Would I find any of mine there? Or if you’ve read Seedfolks, what seed did it plant in your heart?
Let’s keep planting seeds of hope, trust, and literary joy—one book at a time.
