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Visited Our Old Library September 2008 Visited Our Old Library September 2008 Visited Our Old Library September 2008

The boy bops and I visited the library in our old neighborhood in Cleveland. We used to live right around the corner from this library and spent hours here each week when they were small. We moved when they were ages 2 and 5 so T-bop didn’t remember it at all and s-bop just barely. It was nice to be there again.

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]]> http://www.trulakids.com/2008/09/visited-our-old-library-the-other-day/feed/ 2 Why You Should Encourage Age Appropriate Reading http://www.trulakids.com/2008/03/why-you-should-encourage-age-appropriate-reading/ http://www.trulakids.com/2008/03/why-you-should-encourage-age-appropriate-reading/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:51:00 +0000 Trula http://www.trulakids.com/?p=552 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> You should encourage your kids to read! A love for reading is a gift and joy that will last your child’s whole life. I myself love to read and so do my children.

I would caution you on letting children read just anything. My parents let me read anything in the house so I often read things way beyond my emotional maturity level that left me puzzled and confused. Sometimes it was funny, my confusion. Have you ever read the book Ragtime? There’s this scene where this guy is all obsessed over this woman. One day he follows her home and hides in her closet. He watches while her friend, another woman, helps her undress and rubs lotion all over her body to soothe her skin which was pinched and scratched from her corset. Dude gets very sexually excited, and bursts out of the closet shooting sperm all over the bed.

I read this when I was 8 years old, and had no idea what was being described. In my 8-year old head I had a picture of a white man jumping out of a closet and suddenly there being petals or snowflakes or something like that falling from the ceiling. That’s the imagery the lyrical prose of E. L. Doctorow produced in my child’s mind. I went and asked my dad what it meant and he just sighed, took off his glasses, closed his eyes, and pinched the bridge of his nose. Then he just told me to skip that part. When I read the book as an adult, I laughed and laughed and laughed.

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]]> http://www.trulakids.com/2008/03/why-you-should-encourage-age-appropriate-reading/feed/ 0 Some of My Favorite Books http://www.trulakids.com/2007/07/some-of-my-favorite-books/ http://www.trulakids.com/2007/07/some-of-my-favorite-books/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:38:00 +0000 Trula http://www.trulakids.com/?p=504 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I have so many favorite books! Off the top of my head here are 10 right quick:

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishamel Reed
Collectors by Paul Griner
The Joke by Milan Kundera
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Rapture of Canaan by Sherri Reynolds
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Authors: Anything by Harlan Ellison, Pearl Cleage, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Gregory Benford, Connie Briscoe, Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Susan Rogers Cooper Alice Adams, Peter S. Beagle, Kimberla Lawson Roby, Ben Bova, Jonathan Carroll.

Now, I want to curl up with a good book. Must…get…back…to work!!

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