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On Thursday morning there was a carrot on the kitchen counter with two fork holes in it. Nobody would claim it. I asked the room in general what happened to the carrot and my four-year-old, without looking up from his cereal, said "THE B...
Somewhere around 1993 I spent an entire Saturday trying every key in our house on every locked thing we owned. Desk drawers, a toolbox, a suitcase in the garage that turned out to contain my dad's tax returns. This book is the reason. If...
Twenty-six publishers rejected this book. Twenty-six. Two dozen professional book-pickers, people whose entire job was recognizing good books, held A Wrinkle in Time in their hands and said no thank you. Then it won the Newbery Medal in ...
Somewhere around the third bedtime, my daughter stopped me mid-sentence and asked how much a train ticket to New York costs now. Not in a dreamy way. In a way that wanted a number. When I said I didn't know, maybe forty bucks, she asked ...
I read this at maybe thirteen, in a beanbag chair in a friend's basement, and I remember closing it and feeling like someone had taken something away from me and refused to give it back. Not a bad feeling. A real one. I'd spent my whole ...
I knew what was coming. That's the thing about this book if you grew up when I grew up. You do not read Bridge to Terabithia cold as a 41-year-old. You carry it around for thirty years like a stone in your coat pocket, and then one night...
"Oh I would never read Junie B. Jones to my kids, she's such a bad influence!" If you are a parent of a 5+ child you've probably heard this before. Luckily I didn't hear it before I first started reading the Junie B. Jones series to my k...
Read the post →Every parent wants to get their kid to love reading. Ok, not all parents (no judgement.. mostly), but I'd say it's mostly a consensus that reading is an activity worth pursuing. Video games? That one's still up in the air (I'm pro btw, a...
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