MEMBER BLOG TAG: children's books to create a lifeloving love of reading
| Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:09AM | | | | Hey, Reading Should Actually Be Fun | Tags: Children's Books to Create a Lifeloving Love of Reading, Mary Ann Hoberman, Francine Prose, Vera B. Williams, Meir Shalev
| | | Using Children's Books to Create a Lifeloving Love of Reading was a great event. Why it attracted the oldest crowd in the history of World Voices, I have no idea, but maybe it's because we're all stuck in our youth. We can't get out but we can't go back either, so we have to turn to literature to save ourselves from the horror of being adults.
"I still live in my pre-school years," Mary Ann Hoberman said.
"I have total recall of my childhood." Vera B. Williams agreed. "But what I'm most concerned with is how we connect our stories with love ... how we make the words get up and dance."
The words did get up and dance this afternoon. Meir... | | | | | |
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