reading update

[cris]

There's a small library growing in our mailroom. It's filling with dog-eared copies of The Magic Treehouse1, WhereThe Sidewalk Ends and Where The Wild Things Are. Some of them have been donated by co-workers with children who've outgrown these books, others have been bought by my peers in the reading program who, in a burst of enthusiasm, raided

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[elkmoosey]

"and hey, haven't you noticed that the same sort of stories keep popping up in these folktales... i have this book called the raw and the cooked...".
anyway, thank you for reciprocally adding me, you seem to have a pretty interesting gang of interests. and ooh, i didn't know about that google function. handy, indeed.

[cris]

"and later, we'll introduce you to a fellow named Joseph Campbell, and he'll take all the fun out of mythology for you!"

everytime I hear the phrase The Raw and The Cooked I still think of the Fine Young Cannibals.

"Hey, Good Thing. Where have you gone? ..."

[_gasoline]

i love this story. it has made my day, especially the part where reading The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System will make a child into a potential astronomer. Books shaped my life so much as a child i decided to dedicate my entire life to reading, analyzing, and writing them, and it seems you're really passionate about teaching a child through reading.

i must say again, i loved this entry.

[cris]

thanks for the praise, and yeah, I do really like teaching this kid because, I went through the same thing of learning about the world via voracious reading habits.

The Magic School Bus series kind of bemuses me because it's almost exactly like all of the junior history and geography books that I tore through when I was a kid except that they have these hokey plots used to string the reader along from lesson to lesson. It's fun listening to the coworker reading it with this sort of strained gusto ... but then we're all probably laying it on a little thick during our own reading sessions.

[msjen]

I never did e-mail you that list of books, did I? I will. But sounds like it's going well.

I think kids can understand semiotics if you explain it to them properly.

[msjen]

If he likes comparing different versions of things, you must read The Stinky Cheese Man.

I'll stop now.

[cris]

a proper semiotics lecture to first graders might involve videogames. I spent the first ten minutes of lunch with the LittleReader listening to him detail the meaning and symbolism of powerups and opponents in Taz: Wanted.