Thoughts about reading fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, new and old
Subject Tag: memorization
Speak, Child: The Illiad as the Infancy of Children’s Literature
Written by Rebecca Reid on Thursday, October 9, 2008 Filed under: Essays/Articles on Reading, Pondering Reading, Reviews, Writing about ReadingIn his first chapter (”Speak, Child”) of Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, Seth Lerer discusses the “infancy” of children’s literature. Such a study requires a review of children’s education, as that is the basis for children’s literature. Lerer discusses the classics (the “really old classics,” as I’ve dubbed them on [...]
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From October 2008-July 2009, I'm hosting the Really Old Classics Challenge.
Also, as an ongoing personal challenge, I'm reading all the works on the How to Read and Why reading list compiled by Harold Bloom. I'd love for you to either join me in this challenge or to follow along with me as I try to learn to read well.
