reading

October 30, 2014
When I Am Old

"When you are 99, you're still going to be running," my 8-year-old says to me out-of-the-blue before I head out for a 5 o'clock run. I nod my head, ponytail bobbing and eyes twinkling, yes. "If you get old and can't read anymore, I am going to come to your house and read you stories." […]

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May 1, 2014
What would you buy if you had $50 to spend on books?

Jessica recently posed the question, "What would you buy if you had $50 to spend on books?" Only books. Heavenly! When I buy books, I tend to buy ones that I have already read. The way I see it, libraries are for researching titles and bookstores are for purchasing copies of outstanding works. I find […]

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March 21, 2014
Tucson Festival of Books 2014

This past weekend, we attended the Tucson Festival of Books at the University of Arizona. As the fourth largest book festival in the United States, the event draws over 120,000 people and raised over $900,000 for literacy organizations in the first four years. With over 200 exhibitors and 300 presentations by local and national authors, […]

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February 19, 2014
Recent Reads

The past few months, I've been squeezing in lots of time with books. Far from being an inactive ambition, reading is about living and thinking fully. As Will Schwalbe wrote, "reading is not the opposite of doing; it is the opposite of dying." As you will see, I tend to alternate between fiction and non-fiction […]

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January 28, 2014
How to Teach Your Child to Read

In my pride, I always thought that my children would read pre-pre-preschool. In the womb, I read them fairy tales. In toddlerhood, I balanced them on my lap and flipped through sturdy board books. I leaned over the bathtub and spelled out words with rubber letters. From about age two, I read them piles of […]

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December 23, 2012
The Picture Book Curriculum

Now that we are homeschooling, people ask us what curriculum we are using. The true answer is: picture books. Oh, the history, the science, the mathematics, and the vocabulary we learn from picture books! With poetry and illustrious illustrations, we learn about Albert Einstein and Wilma Rudloph, the Holocaust and homesteading, leukemia and loneliness, phonics […]

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