Month: March 2006
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Swallows and Amazons by Arthur RansomeDavid R. Godine, 1985 (14th printing, 2005), originally Jonathan Cape, 1930
Megan and I read this book aloud to one another over the course of several months, and oh, it was the perfect book for reading aloud. A family on summer holiday, the children allowed to go sailing and camping on their own: all the details of their camp, the tents and the teakettle, and all…
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Weight by Jeanette WintersonCanongate, 2005
The myth of Atlas, re-told. Weight & destiny & choice: how things seem inevitable, but what if they’re not?
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Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette WintersonHarcourt, 2004 (originally Fourth Estate, 2004)
A book full of wind and sea and salt. Silver, an orphan, is apprenticed to a lighthousekeeper to learn the trade, but of course, this being Jeanette Winterson, that’s only one of this book’s many stories. (There are always many stories, stories to hear and stories to tell.) There’s the story of Babel Dark, or…