literacy

Growing Through Books

by Constance Gilbert November 8, 2010

I love books! When I was first learning the magic of putting letters together and forming words, it was exciting! Before long I switched from picture books to chapter books then to any and all children’s books. I preferred reading to almost anything else. When the lights were off at night, I made up stories, [...]

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Adventure Between the Pages

by Karen Robbins October 5, 2008
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As a young girl, my love for reading knew no bounds. I devoured everything I could get my hands on from comic books to novels to books on space (I should have been an astronaut) to magazines. I grew to hate my middle name because the only way my mother could get my attention while [...]

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Storybook Memories

by Karen Robbins September 1, 2007

A 1941 cover of the Saturday Evening Post features Norman Rockwell’s Girl Reading. I wondered if he may have done a painting with a child sitting on a grandmother’s lap while she read to him. I wouldn’t be surprised since that is truly one of the tenderest moments between grandmother and grandchild. As a writer, [...]

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A Review of Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz

by Charity October 1, 2006
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Primo Levi’s book Survival in Auschwitz1 is the amazing and disturbing story of one man’s journey to a place between earth and hell called Auschwitz. It is also a story of how he survived this journey. Along the way Levi gives the reader an incredible and searing glimpse of what it is like to go [...]

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Read It Again, Grandma!

by Karen Robbins September 1, 2006

I love Dr. Seuss books. I loved reading them to my children. I love reading them to my grandchildren. The Cat In The Hat is fun because it opens the door to the imagination. Just what would you tell your mother if you’d had a day like that? I’ve received all sorts of answers from [...]

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