“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” [J. K. Rowling] When I opened to the first page of Colin Meloy’s Wildwood, I knew an adventure was about to take place! The first sentence alone emits so much curiosity that the reader grips the edges of the book as a…
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Under a Book’s Spell
A book is a journey, and readers be warned: those who enter through these terrific tomes must be prepared for a long, sometimes emotional, sometimes stressful, but always exciting expedition.
Lights. Camera. Read. (Part Two)
“We have an obligation to read aloud to our children.” [Neil Gaiman] If you are tuning in to this post, please note that this is a part two to my post on Sunday. Please click here to catch up! This past month I read Holes by Louis Sachar to our summer campers….
Lights. Camera. Read. (Part One)
“There are worse crimes than burning a book. One of them is not reading them.” [Ray Bradbury] This summer I have been working with our summer campers (ages six to twelve) on literacy. And I don’t just mean, getting the kids to read, but providing these wonderful, imaginative, unique personalities with reading and…
A Wordless Conversation
“Before they read words, children are reading pictures.” [David Wiesner] They always say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” They also say “A child should read a thousand books before going to kindergarten.” (I would like to meet this omnipresent “they” everyone is always referencing by the way.) Let’s start…
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…
Tips from a Book Doctor
“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.” [Inkheart–Cornelia Funke] One book from my childhood that I simply adore is Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. I remember checking it out from the…
Rose on Reading 