They were your childhood books — but are they books for your child? NPRBooks columnist Juanita Giles tackles finding the magic of books amid a pandemic.
, but I've wracked my brain, and if we're talking about books for boys about boys, I've come up pretty empty. So, I did the only thing I could think of: I asked my husband for his advice.
All the energy he would have spent on the NBA finals had a new focus, and he was bound and determined to introduceto a new audience — and by new audience, I mean me, as well as my son. Will Jody, who is terrified of the ball, overcome his fear? Will he get to play in an actual game? These are not small questions for a ten-year-old boy, or for his mom, for that matter.
The day will come when we can go back to the library and see what is new on the shelves, and that will be a great day. But for now, I'm not going to let any book on our shelves go to waste. It may seem that reaching for a book that's more than a century older than my kids is just as ambitious as tryingJuanita Giles is the founder and executive director of the Virginia Children's Book Festival. She lives on a farm in Southern Virginia with her family.
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