That's very interesting, thank you! My thinking was that The Little Schemer might be more approachable than SICP and that I could use the momentum from it for tackling the bigger book. Might have to revisit that assumption.
The reason ANSI Common Lisp is first is that I had already started on it before I made this plan, so I'm going to try to finish first (and somehow I actually don't find it super dry? I like the way it explains things, and the exercises).
I do have a copy of Land of Lisp (first Lisp book I bought a few years back!) but it somehow didn't work for me. Might have to revisit.