Today’s quote is from a Parents’ Review article by G. F. Husband (which I probably should read in full!). Karen Glass shared it in her excellent new book Know and Tell: The Art of Narration.
This is so encouraging to know, because I have three different varieties of writers here so far: a natural one who has written several books already, a reluctant one (who can nevertheless express himself quite well when he decides to), and one in between. It’s tempting to compare my more laconic writers to my natural one, but that would be doing them a disservice. I need to see where they each are in the writing process and know where to go from there, and Karen has some great advice on how to do just that. I love that she’s written several sections addressed directly to young writers introducing various stages of the writing process. I’m hoping to finish Know and Tell soon, but I can already highly recommend it! One of William Zinsser’s books (which Karen recommends) needs to be next on the teacher-training list, either On Writing Well (which we have and Miss A has read) or Writing to Learn.
Also read/listened to recently:
- Hubby: he’s reading Ivanhoe aloud to Mr. D, and they are both enjoying it.
- Me: I finished Abraham Lincoln’s World on Sunday – my favorite of the three books by Genevieve Foster that I’ve read.
- Miss A: she’s finished up several school reads this week, including Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian by John Piper
- Mr. D: Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc
- Mr. E: he’s been rather saddened by all the death near the end of Oliver Twist, but I think it’s good for him to encounter that kind of thing via good books.
- Mr. L: he started reading Little Bear today. ♥
- Little R: still loving his Christmas book, Keats’s Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury
- Current lunchtime read-aloud: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo – I read it aloud years ago, but only the oldest two remember it, and they both wanted to hear it again. 🙂
