Ten Titles on Tuesday: 5/11/21
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Good morning, all.
This week’s Ten Titles, never in any particular order:
Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield
Noodle Magic by Roseanne Greenfield Thong
By Day, By Night by Amy Gibson
Daisy by Jessixa Bagley
You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion by Margaret O’Hair
Everything Under a Mushroom by Ruth Krauss
Kate, Who Tamed the Wind by Liz Garton Scanlon
Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book by Miranda Paul
The Pig and Miss Prudence by Linda Stanek
Peas and Honey: Recipes for Kids (With a Pinch of Poetry) by Kimberly Colen
In James Clear’s April 22, 2021 edition of his newsletter, 3-2-1 Thursday, he shared the following excerpt from A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick. It so beautifully encompasses why I believe reading is important that I wanted to share it here:
A letter from author Anne Lamott on the value of reading:
“If you love to read, or learn to love reading, you will have an amazing life. Period. Life will always have hardships, pressure, and incredibly annoying people, but books will make it all worthwhile. In books, you will find your North Star, and you will find you, which is why you are here.
Books are paper ships, to all the worlds, to ancient Egypt, outer space, eternity, into the childhood of your favorite musician, and — the most precious stunning journey of all — into your own heart, your own family, your own history and future and body.
Out of these flat almost two-dimensional boxes of paper will spring mountains, lions, concerts, galaxies, heroes. You will meet people who have been all but destroyed, who have risen up and will bring you with them. Books and stories are medicine, plaster casts for broken lives and hearts, slings for weakened spirits. And in reading, you will laugh harder than you ever imagined laughing, and this will be magic, heaven, and salvation. I promise.”
Not sure anyone could say it better.
Read good books and take good care 😘
Sarah
@can_we_read