“When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three, I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I’m as clever as clever. So I think I’ll…
Tag: childhood
The Library
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” [Arnold Lobel] Well, it has begun, I have no more shelf space for all of the books in my…
Besides the Wardrobe
“And that is the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.” [C.S. Lewis] My reading goal for this year is fifty books. Last week I finished up reading my seventeenth book of the year. Here’s to book…
A Grown-Up Who Remembers
“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it” [Antoine de Saint-Exupéry] In my initial post, A Word On Imagination, I claimed to possess a top notch make-believe machine that is still up and running in my cranium. I also remarked that no matter how hard I try, my imagination…
Rose on Reading 