EotWKLRU is on vacation

By Paul

End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup will return, but we're taking it easy this weekend--as illustrated below, with Silas learning about the magical effects of wriggling sand between your toes:

We're all keeping busy reading, though: I'm finally getting to the Wordy Shipmates while simultaneously enjoying the new Max Disaster series; Heidi is reading The Incognito Lounge ("Denis Johnson is like the better-writer version of Bukowski," she says) and the upcoming middle-reader When You Reach Me; and Silas' current rotation of favorites includes The Sleepy Little Alphabet, Bringing Down the Moon, A Small Surprise, and Have You Ever Tickled a Tiger?