I have little memory of what I read as a child. The children’s classics never much appealed to me, either then or now. My lasting memories of literature begin with what I read as a teenager. It was only when I discovered contemporary literature—contemporary, for me, being of the 1980s and 1990s—that my reading life … Continue reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
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Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett (Little, Brown, and Co, 2026)
A book I have read this summer, read slowly and then re-read, has been Mac Barnett’s Make Believe. A book not for children, but for adults about children’s literature. Barnett is an author and the US equivalent of the Children's Laureate. The core of his argument, as I understand it, has three strands. First, that … Continue reading Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett (Little, Brown, and Co, 2026)
Reading the (Children’s) Classics aloud: batch 1
As I explained in an earlier post, I have been reading some classic children’s literature to my two children, now aged 8 and 12 years. They can, of course, and both do read independently, but there’s a particular joy in reading aloud and being read to. Some stories were designed to be enjoyed that way … Continue reading Reading the (Children’s) Classics aloud: batch 1
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