Comments on: The Rat’s Week in Review http://theundeadrat.com/the-rats-week-in-review-2/ Your Place for Horror Books, the Horror Genre, Authors and Book Lists Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:59:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Undead Rat http://theundeadrat.com/the-rats-week-in-review-2/comment-page-1/#comment-183 The Undead Rat Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:15:29 +0000 http://theundeadrat.com/the-rats-week-in-review-2/#comment-183 <a class="comment_link" href="http://theundeadrat.com/the-rats-week-in-review-2/#comment-158" rel="nofollow">Dustin</a>, Thank you for dropping by. Your post has stayed with me all these months and finally last week it gave me an idea. After I fix the current book cover crisis on my book lists, I want to start a weekly post talking about books with horror themes and monsters that parents could read with their kids. I'll be using the brain trust of the children's librarians where I work to make sure I get it age appropriate. I'm excited about this way of sharing a passion for reading and it is working well with my daughter. --Greg "The Undead Rat" Dustin,

Thank you for dropping by. Your post has stayed with me all these months and finally last week it gave me an idea. After I fix the current book cover crisis on my book lists, I want to start a weekly post talking about books with horror themes and monsters that parents could read with their kids. I’ll be using the brain trust of the children’s librarians where I work to make sure I get it age appropriate. I’m excited about this way of sharing a passion for reading and it is working well with my daughter.

–Greg “The Undead Rat”

]]> By: Dustin http://theundeadrat.com/the-rats-week-in-review-2/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Dustin Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:04:51 +0000 http://theundeadrat.com/the-rats-week-in-review-2/#comment-158 Thanks for the kind words about my "Reading Family" post (discovered via trackback). My library didn't have family packs, but since there are multiple copies of many of hte best kids' books, it's usually possible to check out two or three at once. It helps to have separate cards for each member ofthe family, so you can put them on separate "accounts" if your library balks at checking out several copies of the same book to one person. The alterrnative is to read the book yourself and give it to your kids the next day. Most books up until the high school level can be read by an adult reader in a couple of hours your kids will probably take much longer (unless thhey're especially fast readers). It's not quite the same as reading at the same time, but it's a close second place. Thanks for the kind words about my “Reading Family” post (discovered via trackback). My library didn’t have family packs, but since there are multiple copies of many of hte best kids’ books, it’s usually possible to check out two or three at once. It helps to have separate cards for each member ofthe family, so you can put them on separate “accounts” if your library balks at checking out several copies of the same book to one person.

The alterrnative is to read the book yourself and give it to your kids the next day. Most books up until the high school level can be read by an adult reader in a couple of hours your kids will probably take much longer (unless thhey’re especially fast readers). It’s not quite the same as reading at the same time, but it’s a close second place.

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