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A mother-daughter reading journal by Kristen den Hartog and “N”
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Books so far ...
- A Bargain for Frances
- A Christmas Carol
- A is for Alice
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Amphigorey
- Babar
- Bambi, A Life in the Woods
- Batty Bat
- Brave Irene
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
- Charlotte's Web
- Clarice Bean
- Clarice Bean (revisited)
- Coraline
- Danny, the Champion of the World
- Esio Trot
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Frog and Toad
- Gnomes
- Going Solo
- Goodnight Moon
- Harry Potter 1
- Harry Potter 2
- Harry Potter 3
- Harry Potter 4
- Harry Potter 5
- Harry Potter 6
- Harry Potter 7
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- I Believe in Unicorns
- In the Night Kitchen
- Ivy and Bean
- Ivy and Bean, What's the Big Idea?
- Library Mouse
- Little House
- Manners
- Mary Poppins
- Matilda
- Mouse Soup
- Mrs. Armitage on Wheels
- Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Narnia: The Horse and His Boy
- Narnia: The Last Battle
- Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
- Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Old Befana
- Owl Moon
- Peter Pan
- Rainbow Magic, Pippi and The Wizard of Oz
- Read to Your Bunny
- Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
- Strega Nona
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- The Amazing Bone
- The BFG
- The Borrowers
- The Borrowers Aloft
- The Boy Who Grew Flowers
- The House at Pooh Corner
- The Magic Finger
- The Nutcracker
- The Secret Garden
- The Twits
- Through the Looking Glass
- Twelve Dancing Princesses (Barbie at the Symphony)
- Welterusten, kleintje
- What the Witch Left
- Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Where the Wild Things Are
Places to find me
The Trillium Series
When writers read kids' books
- Allyson Latta: Dutch Boys and Fast Boats
- Barry Grills: the seeds of the writing bug
- Carrie Snyder: the many stages of reading
- Iain Reid: Fantastic Mr Reid on Fantastic Mr Fox
- Kerry Clare: "Once there was a baby …"
- Mark Frutkin: story at the end of the bed
- Michelle Berry: "Reading (and writing) is a noisy thing for me"
- Miranda Hill: Bea and the Garden
- Shannon Anderson: building a library
- Shannon Bramer: "My Babe, My Boobs, Our Books"
- Shari Lapena: raising an excellent (dyslexic) reader
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Pearls
"So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone." From Matilda, by Roald Dahl- "And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me." Astrid Lindgren
- “I wish she would just write the story the way I have it in my head! This can’t be happening!” N regarding JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- “I never know why Mary Poppins is thought of as a children’s book. Indeed I don’t think there are such things. There are simply books and some of them children read.” P.L. Travers
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Blog of Green Gables · a mother-daughter reading journal by Kristen den Hartog
Simply … lovely!
Thanks Cheryl!
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I love that foot kicking out to the side — subtle but telling. And the way she’s represented the leaves on the tree. Where is this? And what’s the squiggle on the grass at right?
The foot is the part I like too. This is Thailand — I can tell because those were our vacation clothes. I don’t know what the squiggle is, I must ask!
This, of course, must be the Garden of Eden. The squiggle is the you-know-what. The child is the result of eating apples and other sinful pleasures…
On the other hand… it might also be the way it looks to ‘be on top of the world’. And the squiggle is a garden hose. To water that tree.
(What a happy trip it must be be to live with your brilliant artist!)
Actually the squiggle may be a snake! We went out on several hunts for snakes, floating through the mangroves and staying perfectly quiet, looking up in the trees where they often sit coiled up, watching for prey.
Oh the wonderful tall tall hill and the people on top of it: king and queens of the castle! (At least I think it’s a king and two queens?)
I love our enormous green eyes and our smiles. Regal indeed!
I think you three are on top of the world
I like that interpretation best of all!
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