“when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.” IfsKnowsChildrenBookReadingWalksDoorsBedTablesReading BooksApartmentShelvesToiletsTanksGrownups Author:Anne Fadiman
“I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.” ThinkingWayChildrenI CanBookIntroducingBetter WaysFingerprints Author:Anne Fadiman
“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.” IfsKnowsChildrenBookHomeReadingParentWalksPleasureRoomsDoorsChildhoodBedDaughterEmptyTablesSevenComplainingExpensiveGradesMy DaughterContrastApartmentShelvesToiletsTanksGrownups Author:Anne Fadiman
“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.” ThinkingChildrenDifferentReasonFormJoyGivenParentParentingGiven UpDormant Book:At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays Source: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
“When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.” ChildrenBookReadingSittingResponseShoesNovelistsHatsChairsStrawsNo ResponseStraw Hats Book:Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
