A talent for reading
Sunday, November 28, 2010
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9 comments:
You are lucky to have such a lovely niece.
love this post. love love love it.
Your lovely niece is very lucky to have you as an aunt. Books are wonderful to share with loved ones.
What a jewel she is! It must be so much fun buying books for her.
I remember a seventh-grade student I had that was heavy into gangs and making ridiculous personal choices. He was searching for what it meant to be Hispanic, and all the talking at him I did amounted to little. Sharing Gary Soto with him was my real breakthrough.
When his mother pulled him from class to go to an alternative school, I sent him with my copy of Roots, something he'd read halfway.
I ran into him a few years later, and the first thing he told me was he'd finished Roots and watched the entire movie (all five videos, I believe).
I will continue to be amazed at the way stories unite people and transcend circumstances, cultures, and generations.
There is a special relationship between aunts and their nieces when they share books.
just loveliness.
Oh my goodness! How wonderful! She is just gorgeous and so intelligent. What a lucky auntie!
Beauty and brains! Love it! How fantastic to have her whisper that to you ... you are an awesome auntie!!!
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