Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday - Inspired

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"Since 'Inspiration' is (or should) the theme this week … what is your reading inspired by?"

My response:

Easy. I love to read. Books. Magazines. Blogs. Newspapers. Reading is such a fundamental skill.

I wasn't always like this.

I didn't get much of a chance when I was growing up and didn't develop an interest until later in life. I hated reading assignments in high school and never finished any of the assigned novels. I'd skim through to get the "jist" of the story and listen to classmates' reviews just so when it came time for me to write my own report or written exam, I'd at least get a passing grade.

Now, with three little ones, just as my blog titles states, "Inspiring Book Worms" is what I'm trying to do. I hope to instill in them what wasn't passed on to me or what I didn't grasp when I was young.

Thankfully I love to read now, they see me reading a lot and we read aloud stories most every day.

So what inspires you to read?

Happy Reading!

Comments

SmilingSally said…

Ah, you're a good mother, who is giving her children the GIFT of the love of reading! Happy BTT

Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 2:52:00 PM CST

I Spy a Freight Train

I Spy a Freight Train by Lucy Micklethwait (ages 4-8) While at the library my son spotted this gem and asked if we could bring home. He loves trains, so of course I said yes. We have a large freight train station in town, so it is rare that we not see a train. It's fun to see his excitement when he sees a train, but it hard to also watch him panic as the train keeps going and disappears. I called this a little gem because I didn't realize that the book about more than just freight trains. We got to spy on airplanes, row boats, horses, sleighs, a baby carriage and many more. Not to mention the other 'made up' things we spied while making a game of it. It was fun. Even more so, my children haven't heard the term baby carriage or sleigh, so that was fun to see what they thought was it. Here's another excerpt of the book. Oh, and while I am not much of an art know it all, in the back of the book are the credits for all of the pictures used. You will find the likes

Expectations

The Little Red Hen by John Escott (Ages 4-8) 2003 A little red hen lives on a farm with a few friends. One day she and her five chicks come upon some grains of wheat. The little red hen decides it would be nice to be able to bake these into a loaf of bread. Now, getting grains of wheat baked into a loaf of bread is lots of work. First you have to plant the seed, harvest the wheat, mill the wheat into flour and then bake the flour into the bread. Now each time a task was to be done, the little red hen asked for assistance from her friends, to each time they declined to help. So the little red hen did everything herself. Without giving away too much more, this is a wonderful story about hard work, the pay off and what you can expect from helping or not helping. Happy Reading!

Putting it in Perspective

Babar Goes to School by Laurent de Brunhoff (Ages 4-8) 2003 Being a King is hard work, but when children proclaim that it is difficult to be a child, Babar is baffled and decided to live a day in the life of a child, again , since he doesn't recall it being so difficult. Babar decided to go to school with the children one day and quickly learns that it can be difficult being a child. Especially learning that he doesn't quite recall how to do a math problem correctly or getting scolded for talking to his neighbor at circle time.... even though he was just trying to help. At the end of the day, Babar was quite tired and decided that it was much easier to be a grown up. Happy Reading!

Inspiring Bookworms

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