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Spontaneous Storytelling With Children: A Lost Art?
“Tell me a story!” It was a steamy summer afternoon in D.C. I had been babysitting our friends’ children – Clare, age five, and Kate, age three – regularly that summer so that their mother could...
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Spontaneous Storytelling With Children, Part Two: Creation and Receptivity
(Part One) Credit: WikiCommons My first question, What does oral and spontaneous storytelling foster in the child – and in the adult – that the board or picture book cannot? prompted a reflection on...
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A Child’s Book of Prayers
This is a beautiful book: My husband found our copy at the used book store. And what a find! Michael Hague has arranged some of the best prayers the English language has to offer children and...
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Austen, Speare, or Something Else? Choosing a Mentor Novel
Novelists out there: Ever been asked to choose a “mentor” novel? The intensive novel writing class I begin soon requires that I choose a mentor novel. This is a novel that I have already read and...
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7 Quick Takes, 6/1/12: Anna Karenina Goes Crazy, But I Do Not
—–{1}—– I finished Anna Karenina Thursday. Count Tolstoy, his wife, their son, and the dog. (Credit: WikiCommons) Immediate thoughts, in no particular order: a) This book makes much more sense as an...
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Sticks, Snow, and the Delight of Being (with some links)
Our young son loves The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. It’s a good thing I also love this book, because he and I have read it, oh, 300 times in the last month. Give or take. “Crunch, crunch, crunch,”...
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