Well, somehow it is August already! That means Brodie is about to turn 4, the schools go back in a couple of weeks and we are nearing the end of summer.

July round up

and

Cunningham and Petrov: The Mystery of the Missing Children chapter 17

How surprising people were! You thought some of them were so horrid, and believed all kinds of things about them—and then they turned out quite different and you wanted to be friends.

Elizabeth Allen reflects on not judging people on first appearances in The Naughtiest Girl Again.