Although you might think it, given that she’s the daughter of two bookworms, Katherine does not have to love to read. I can insist that she learn to do it well, but I know we can’t pick our children’s loves. It does thrill me to see her so engrossed in a passion of her own finding (“Just three more pages!” when I called her for breakfast), and I know from experience how rewarding this particular love can be. Last month I brought home all of the young-adult fiction I own, from the Narnia books to E. B. White. Katherine immediately latched on to the Little House on the Prairie books for our read-aloud time and by the time Nathaniel joined us we were in the middle of the third one, Farmer Boy.
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Alan Schmierer
How wonderful! I hope mine get there. 🙂 They definitely love us reading to them…
Those were favorites when I was growing up too. Farmer Boy was such an interesting contrast to Laura’s story!