Most timely, Charles. We all need to read and heed these quotes. The budget needs to put Education as a top priority. Alas, under the current regime, that won’t happen. One’s head must be buried deeply in the sand to not see the price the nation is paying for ignorance. Thank you for shining some light out into the darkness.
In Part 2, I shared worrisome statistics about children who enter school excited to learn to read, and the dramatic drop-off when they are not exposed to books and hearing words. I talked about the next step, engaging children in both conversation and thinking – writing picture stories.
Part 3
There is proof in the pudding down the road. Language, literacy and storytelling makes a difference, and not just with children. Well, there’s more. Adults. That proof is in the high quality of Cuban cigars. It’s a great story, one of my favorites.
Reading aloud never gets old. It weathers time and generations. For adults, when we are read to, we listen, think and feel. And, we have to stretch our brain. When we only hear the words it sharpens our mind, and our performance is much better.
The Cuban cigar industry understood this. That’s why they make…
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Yes! I can so relate to this post. I couldn’t resist a reblog. HAPPY BOOK LOVERS DAY!
“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to “I hate to read new books,” and I hollered “Comrade” to whoever owned it before me.” – Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road
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Old books: paper or ebook
I like meeting
And old paperback
Like an illicit lover
No fresh from printer’s glare
No stiff cover
So comfortable the invitation
Easily pages turn
Consummate host for this reader
With scant euros to burn
Each book that I discover
A long awaited friend
Its secrets I’ll uncover
Its binding I shall bend
Not disrespectful
au contraire, mon cher
Treasure in my hands
Riches beyond compare
I’ll treasure every syllable
That twists about my tongue
Cautious of each coffee spill
A drop of wine or two
Read, read, read – take your fill
Bisous,
Léa
My apologies for the rhyming, something I rarely do and never intentionally.
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss
“A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket.” – Chinese Proverb
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelo
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Theo’s golden ticket
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I hear plastic wheels clacking
Crossing the kitchen floor
From ear to ear he’s grinning
A surprise he has in store
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Struggling his passage
Now carpeted terrain
Seizing grandma unaware his goal
His eyes have taken aim
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Theo aims his vessel
Stories to behold
Hungry for some cuddles
Possibilities he’s trolled
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The treasure at last
Their prize is now in sight
Observant from the mast
Grandma’s arms ready
To seize this impish mite
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The treasure’s in sight
Stories the prize he’s won
Love of reading – will he take the bite
Learning has begun
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Bisous,
Léa
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers
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My not so secret addiction
The reasons themselves
Do not matter
Somehow I never got
Around to reading
Vonnegut – yet
Today one of his books
A Man Without a Country
Appeared at my door
Via la poste
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Scanning a few pages
A quote or two catches
My eye – arousing
Inherent curiosity
My inner cat alerted
The treat is in store
Lying in wait –
Ready to pounce
*
Such is the life
Of the reader
There are always books
Demanding to be read
Authors to discover
Stories to be told – alas
So many books and
Life – gone in a flash
Or a whimper
*
Heady with Sir Chaplin
Halfway through his life
The tower of coming attractions
Beckon seductively
Cocooned in his story
Yet a restlessness – a whisper
Fear that the lights may darken
Before the next front-runner
Has exposed itself –
Reveal its secrets
Intoxication of the
Literary sensibility
Bisous,
Léa
Thank you Christine over at http://journeyintopoetry.wordpress.com for inspiring this post. Stop in and meet Christine if you are not already following her. Read and be inspired as I am.
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“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” – B.F. Skinner
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” – A.C. Grayling
“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” – Hazel Rochman
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Cadeau de la clé / Gift of the key
Children
Intrinsically curious
Insatiable in their
Hunger
Starving to understand
Insatiable curiosity
The mystery about them
This world, people
How things work?
Why they do not work?
What is to become of them?
How do they fit in?
Or not?
Give them fuel to feed
The fires of inquisitiveness
Open the door to literature,
History, science, poetry
And all the world of print
Give them the tools
To learn, to explore so that they
One day they can be more
Read to them teach them
Give them the key
Entice them to unlock each
Mystery that beckons and the
Gift that they are never
Alone
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Bisous,
Léa
“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
literary sensibilites
if image is “everything”
does that not judge
the book by the cover
so many books
have nestled snugly
in my grip
from the tattered
paperback
to the pristine
hardback
in a designer
jacket
truth be told
the smoothly worn
paperback
well loved by
a previous reader
dog-eared pages
notes penciled in
make it evident
the love shared
with another reader
kindle be dammed
intimacy with words
demands pages I can turn
kindle will not
soak up my tears
nor dribbles of café
and will not sit quietly
on a shelf
awaiting discovery by
future generations
it will lie in a landfill
with other toxic “disposables”
a casualty to latest technology
bisous,
léa
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