S.G.Dewey

1: Sign of Four
2: Treasure Island
3: Charlotte’s Web

I know I already voted, but as a second-and-third-place vote I second Greta’s votes for Sign of Four or Treasure Island. *stares at word repeat* Yep. It’s past my bedtime for sure.

I vote for The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Oh my, and I thought we had it bad. Thanks for putting things into perspective. 🙂 What is South Africa’s climate spiritually? Is it hostile to Christianity, or not?

@overcomer – This summer the only thing I’m planning to write is poetry, so I probably won’t be participating much. Thanks for tagging me, though! 🙂

Exactly! Some how, even in the serious life-threatening scenes, he is irrepressibly positive. And his name is absolutely perfect.

COBALT!!! Without a doubt, most certainly and beyond comparison, Cobalt. It seems like he isn’t technically the main character, but at the same time he’s the life of the story. I don’t think I’ve come across a character like Cobalt before. @writefury How did you come up with him?

COBALT!!! Without a doubt, most certainly and beyond comparison, Cobalt. It seems like he isn’t technically the main character, but at the same time he’s the life of the story. I don’t think I’ve come across a character like Cobalt before. @Rosey-Mucklestone How did you come up with him?

I finished it! Awesome job, Rosey. Is this the second book in a series? It’s different from what I read on your blog.

I’m pretty sure the cardinal is Virginia’s state bird, too. I wonder why they are so popular.

Yay! Thank you, Rosey! I read the sample on your blog a few months ago, and it was awesome. I can’t wait to read this! 🙂 🙂 🙂

I would wait until the child was able to understand the idea of an allegory, that the animals are representing people and that real animals don’t act that way. There is quite a bit more violence toward the end of the book, and the ending is very bleak. (I hope that wasn’t a spoiler.) I’m sure most children could technically handle it, but I don’t…[Read more]

A thousand welcomes, Emma Flournoy! It’s such an honor to meet Kate’s sister. 🙂 You beat me to it, but I’ll say it anyway- welcome to the bestiest place on the Internet!!!

Wait…

@Daeus – is it bestiest or bestistest?

I’m here at last! Now to find something that hasn’t already been said…
I was thinking that Orwell’s writing style makes the allegory particularly easy to see. Maybe it’s because the story isn’t told from a specific animal’s perspective, so you get the overall big picture. Is there another style that could work equally well for something like…[Read more]

I like Uncharted, too. It sounds mysterious.

@overcomer — Thank you so much for linking that PDF! I haven’t been able to find a copy. Hopefully I will get caught up by tomorrow.

@Daeus — Thanks for the reminder!

@Hannah-Krynicki Thanks!

It looks like the free version of Animal Farm has been removed both from iBooks and from our iCloud account. 🙁 Unless I find another copy somewhere, I may have to skip this discussion. (This is a great discussion, by the way. Good job, @everyone!) 🙂

Wow, thanks for the warning! Yeah, I’m not allowed on sites like that. Sometimes this culture we live in is so … annoying. Oh well. Thank you so much for telling me.

Legendaires is the perfect name.