Archive for 2016
Reading a book to a child sends them a love letter that will last forever.
June 26, 2016
How many love letters have you received in your life? Have you saved them? No grown up ever forgets the love they felt when they were read to as a child. The intimacy that lives inside a shared reading experience is not something one forgets. Recalling childhood reading and their impact is to saunter down […]
The gift of summer
June 19, 2016
The first day of summer conjures up memories as well as anticipation for those long and lazy days of summer. Unfortunately, and to a child’s detriment, the idea of unstructured time is not something they have much experience with. Think of what our world would be like without time to just Be in the moment.Those […]
Stories nurture a child’s BeComing
May 24, 2016
Late May, with Memorial Day quickly approaching, announces summer is about to arrive. A perfect summer activity awaits—the joy of reading a book just for pleasure, with no assignment attached, while eating an ice cream cone. Louise Erdich was recently asked what book made her who she is today? Her response speaks volumes—It’s wasn’t a […]
Peter Pan’s creator would be 156 years old today.
May 9, 2016
J.M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan 112 years ago and yet the book lives on in the mind and heart of every child who has read the story. What might be less known is the family tragedy that inspired Barrie to write the story of Peter Pan, the story of a boy that stayed a boy […]
What would the Bard have to say to his many critics if he showed up to mark the 400th anniversary of his death?
April 25, 2016
You are in good company if you hold Shakespeare in disdain. The roster of famous writers and celebrated personages who have picked quarrels with Shakespeare runs long. Who do you most align with—the poet laureate, Nahum Tate, Voltaire, Tolstoy? Tate adapted King Lear into a crowd pleaser—giving King Lear a happy ending, restoring Lear to […]
