In early July I joined Diversity Your Reading Challenge. At that time I told you about my teaching experience in the 1960s. I taught fifth grade in an inner city school where the main educational problem was low reading abilities. As a life-long reader, I hurt for my students. I knew how much they were [...]
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Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while.
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Strawberry Girl Lois Lenski Harper Collins, 1945 John Newberry Medal Winner What a pleasure to go back in time and remember sitting/lying on our front porch one summer with this book. That summer I was living out this tale of the Florida “Crackers”, as they were called. Birdie Boyer and her family have just moved [...] I am thoroughly enjoying this chance to re-read some of the books I enjoyed as a child. Most of us who are adult book lovers got our start as children. We can all give lists of those favorites. And then, if we have children of our own, we get to share those favorites with our [...] This year I’m going back and reading some of the favorite books I loved as a child. I shared them with my children and now I’m starting on the grandchildren. Today I am going to share two books with you by the same author, Robert McCloskey. The stories are different but the writing style is [...] This is my youngest granddaughter, Lou. At three, she is already a lifelong lover of books. Eating, sleeping, playing, reading – that’s what life is all about for her. The last six months she’s been captivated by an old Richard Scarry book of nursery rhymes. Scarry’s drawings are just so perfect: simple, whimsical, and full of [...] |
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