As the school year approaches I thought I’d share a couple of the titles that are in the stack of books on my dresser – my go-to pile of reading material that is constantly changing.
Right now I have Lights on the Nile by Donna Jo Napoli, Lower the Trap by Jessica Scott Kerrin, Kingdom Keepers II by Ridley Pearson, The Rights of the Reader by Pennac, A Repair Kit for Grading by Ken O’Connor, The Family Kitchen Garden by Liebreich, Wagner and Wendland and What Learning Leaves by Taylor Mali.
Through my reading I am planning a winter garden, I was captivated by Kepi, a young Egyptian girl in 2530, struggling to save her family and Daniel Pennac reminded my why reading with our children at Bedtime is so precious: “A sudden truce after the battle of the day, a reunion lifted out of the ordinary…Without realizing it, we were discovering one of the crucial functions of storytelling and, more broadly speaking, of art in general, which is to offer a respite from human struggle.”