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Children’s books

Get Second Sight

28.03.2011

I’ve been waiting for this book ever since I read in Cheryl Klein‘s blog that she was publishing it. Second Sight is a collection of her talks at various writing conferences, between 2003 and 2010, as well as her blog posts. It was worth the wait. From picture books to YA, Cheryl covers: what makes [...]

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Give Up, Give In, or Muddle Through?

03.03.2011

I knew someone once who loved to read. They had a very strict reading regimen. Only nonfiction. And whatever they started, they started on page one and went through to the last page. No skipping, no skimming. So there. When I told this person I liked to check out the index first, then dip into [...]

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That Thing We Do

06.02.2011

Why do we do what we do? I knit because I love the feel of merino and cashmere through my fingers; because I’m hypnotized by thick, rich color; and because I am addicted to the rhythm of my knitting needles making one stitch at a time as if a metronome marking time. One stitch. One [...]

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To Dip, To Skip, To Not

19.09.2010

I was flipping through Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader this morning. And in doing so, I was exercising one of my rights—(#8) To Dip In. My relationship with books is complicated. I love books. I love reading. But sometimes I don’t. Read, that is. When I was little, I read everything. When I got [...]

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