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Sat 02 Feb 2010Reading and children
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go. — Dr Seuss, from I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
THE JOY of immersing oneself in a book is perhaps only surpassed by that of reading out loud, particularly to a child. The articulation of the words gives them a life and reality they simply don’t have on the page; the child’s willing suspension of disbelief is a wonderful glimpse at innocence and imagination unbounded. That is, of course, unless it’s the 43rd reading, from beginning to end, word-perfect, of that one particularly inane favourite tale ...
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