frogs, toads, poster board and tacky glue

Disaster entirely averted: the two kids who will appear as Frog & Toad on Monday evening (they asked what time to show up and I took a guess and said 6--someone please call and set them straight if I blew it!) will ALSO appear on Tuesday AND Wednesday mornings. Xandi, I'll give you another contact for another homeschooler who's willing to do this sort of thing on weekdays, and will take my own daughters off standby for the Wednesday gig. (New question: Jason, do you need the guys to be here at 9 on Wednesday? Let's clarify this with their mom early next week...)

AF, I've set up the story room for your Monday story time, including books you'll read and the felt-board stuff, and all the rhyme sheets and texts on the walls; all you need to do is brew your tea (and grab a basket of board books).

...However, we are down to our last 1/2" of viable tacky glue (unless anybody has a hidden stash), and by my count we have ~10 sheets of white poster board, 7 of yellow, 4 black, 2 blue, and one (count 'em!) of red. In short, unless white or black strike your fancy, you're mostly out of luck and we should maybe order more?

WAY OFF TOPIC QUESTION: I find myself reading (and listening to) lots of children's literature, lately, and would love to set up a forum (maybe a corner of this blog?) for all of us to be able to report on what we're reading. Not only do I have a personal need to discuss why the reader of Carl Hiaasen's Hoot did so much better at bringing the book to life than the reader of Hiassen's Flush (or maybe the latter is really an adult book that just didn't get de-adulted adequately and H was steered wrong by his publisher?) --and why readers don't just get carte blanche to use contractions when they're reading, instead of stilted "I did not knows" and "they should not haves"---but I know that some of you follow literature that I would never find time for, and your interests would help me when I'm serving the young people of Webster, maybe even broaden my own horizons! (What's new and hot in the 3rd grade?? Judy Moody? Star Wars?) None of you needs more work to do, I know, but this is the sort of thing we occasionally do on the fly--and it could be helpful to have the published record to refer to...

What do others think?