Since I was a little girl, reading has been a past-time near and dear to my heart. As pathetic as it might sound, I often felt like characters in books were dear friends (i.e. Jane Eyre, Anne Shirley.) Throughout adolescence, I would have much rather stayed home on any weekend reading, than go to a dance or football game. Anyway, enough about me. My point is that I hope to inspire within my children a love of reading. I like to think that I'm planting a little seed of "love for literature" in them.
The book is "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread." I read the book in one night and found it charming. I highly recommend it. It really helped reading it first on my own because now I can read the dialogue the way it should be read. Oh- and the movie is coming out next month. Perfect timing!
7 comments:
You are such a good mom - can I come and listen to the story too? :)
i would seriously love to be there while you're reading to your kids. is the book too young for aidan? i think he would enjoy a chapter book. something to look forward to the next night.
I read this book really quickly too and loved it. Another one your boys might love is Peter Pan--the original by J.M. Barry. Excellent for reading out loud. Or any of the Narnia series.
Good for you Meg! The time flies by and before you know it Jack will prefer to read to himself instead of having you read to him. It is a sad day...but now Maya reads to Eden so I guess it's okay.
What a great idea. I have been thinking that my kids might be ready for me to read a chapter book to them. Maybe I should read them that book too - then we could go see the movie together! So, are the kids getting into it?
I just requested it from our library. I love a good book!
Megs, the kids are darling. I want to squeeze little Lucy and owen... you look amazing as well. i miss you megs!
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