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So D has been down with the gastric flu for the past two days, which means all I need to do is hug him and lie down beside him while KrA sees to it that all our needs are met. The child is such a delight even during a bout
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As of the writing of this post (late in the evening of the sixth day of March), D has 13 books waiting to be picked up at the library. We are very close to the limit of 50 books that can be borrowed at a given time. Which also means
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Sometimes a book has to wait to be found. It has to bide its time until the child falls in love with it. It has to put up with rejection after rejection until at long last, there is a slight stirring of interest one day that quickly morphs into an
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Our local library, the Burlington Public Library, is particularly generous. One can borrow up to 50 books at a time! And it seems we can renew the books as many times as we please. So far I have renewed several books for D six or seven times. Unless someone has
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Every reference to my childhood mischiefs entails a recollection by my maternal aunt of how I used to grab a mug of water and proceed to wash a handkerchief in the middle of the living room of my maternal grandparents’ home, a place that no longer exists in the physical
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Oh, the simple beauty of this tale. Every reading tugs at my heart strings. The author, whose You Can Do It, Sam is another of D’s favourites, employs a simple way of comparing the heart-achingly similar lives of two neighbours - Bunny and Dog - who share a fence. The
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Holding within its pages a simple story about a little bear Sam and his mother Mrs. Bear baking cakes to deliver to their friends on Plum Street, this book fast became D’s favourite a few weeks ago. There’s a lot in this book that was already familiar territory
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Given enough time, the impossible can happen. As it did in our home last week. After flipping through the 318 pages of this book every single day, several times a day, for the past five months, giving it a status of indispensability and irreplaceability in his bedtime readings, D decided
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When D came down with the flu last month ahead of the Thanksgiving weekend, we headed to the library and returned home armed with a set of eight books. Of these, I picked up one knowing it was likely fairly above D’s reading/comprehension level but it was I
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Oh, the delights of this book! Fox’s rhymes and Oxenbury’s illustrations are nothing short of a magical concoction. In my initial readings of this book, the words that held the most allure to me were what the narrator tells her child, about him “being truly divine”. Not a
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This book was my Father’s Day gift to KrA in June 2017, shortly before D turned a year old. It is a hilarious collection of several animals’ and birds’ endeavours at coaxing their offsprings to say “Dada”. And the little ones, wise as they inherently are, preciously reply with
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I was five months pregnant when I bought the first book for my child. Time for Bed by Mem Fox and Jane Dyer. I read it aloud to my unborn child every night. In the weeks that followed, I bought a few more books. Possum Magic by Mem Fox and