B. came home last night from the library with the third and final book in T.A. Barron’s Great Tree of Avalon series, The Eternal Flame. It is sitting quietly by his bed, and he is not here. I have nothing on my calendar today. I may just have to sneak the book onto my reading stack!

And, while jetting around the web to get a link to Barron’s site, I ran across the news that The Lost Years of Merlin is on it’s way to becoming a film! It’s been some time since I’ve read this book, or the others in the series, but it is phenomenal. My kids love series’ like this, to have the understanding that the end of a book doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the story - until the last one, anyhow. The series focuses on Merlin’s life as a boy, and how he came to be the magician, and would be suitable for kids 8+. In a way, it reminds me of Lloyd Alexander’s excellent Prydain Chronicles.