![]() The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse, edited by Neil Philip But each will offer something significant to a variety of readers, in any stage of life. Will everyone in your family enjoy these the same way? Honestly, that seems unlikely. What I list here, then, is an assortment of titles that may speak to a wide array of ages and tastes. Any given selection was unlikely to thrill the entire group, but a book can do more than entertain-it can also provoke, challenge, educate, or soothe. But how was I to find writing that might entertain everyone? That was the wrong question, I realized. Sharing what we were reading could give us a common language and a cast of characters we all knew. Neither of them had much interest in the fairy tales I loved, and I couldn’t stand most of what they checked out of the library-I struggled to follow their graphic novels and cringed at dense World War I nonfiction, full of descriptions of gory battles and trench foot.Įven so, I was grateful for the time we spent with our books, and loved what it did for us as a family. Once they could read, however, my boys made clear to me that we didn’t enjoy the same stories. ![]() ![]() I’d loved books as a child, and I couldn’t wait to share my favorites with my new little family. ![]() They’d gurgle up at me, chewing their adorable fingers, as I chanted the words to The Real Mother Gooseor When We Were Very Young. As soon as my kids were born, I began reading to them. ![]()
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