We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.
Katherine PatersonA good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.
Katherine PatersonMy heart is heavy, she thought. Itโs not just a saying. It is what isโheavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.
Katherine PatersonReading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
Katherine Paterson