Thoughts about reading fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, new and old
Subject Tag: nursery rhymes
Ingenuity and Authority: Who Really Wrote Aesop’s Fables?
Written by Rebecca Reid on Thursday, October 16, 2008 Filed under: Essays/Articles on Reading, Pondering Reading, Reviews, Writing about ReadingA few months ago, I read a version of Aesop’s Fables that I found online at Project Gutenberg, written and published in the early 1900s. I thought I’d read Aesop’s Fables.
I was interested, then, to read in chapter two (”Ingenuity and Authority”) of Seth Lerer’s Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter [...]
Poetry Friday: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Written by Rebecca Reid on Friday, August 8, 2008 Filed under: PoetryI found Poems Every Child Should Know, which was edited by Mary E. Burt and published in 1904, on the Project Gutenberg site. I was looking for poems by Rudyard Kipling, but I decided to look at all of this, as I have a child and want him to know what he “should” know.
I’ve [...]
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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.
