Tag: book
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June 14, 2022
Thrilled to help Jenna launch her Read with Jenna Jr. Book Club for kids on the Today Show this morning ! https://www.today.com/…/jenna-bush-hager-launches-read… Reactions: 9.3K Comments: 238 Original Post
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February 8, 2022
When I’m asked who my heroes are I think of the people who have put books in my hands: my mother, librarians, teachers, booksellers, friends. It moves me tremendously every time someone hands me a book. For me, books are anchors (they remind me of who I am) and kites (they show me who I…
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October 26, 2021
On an early morning walk: Neighbor: The kids and I are reading your new book, and do you know the question I get asked every night and every morning? Me: No. Neighbor: Mom, can we please, please, please get a goat? Me: Ha! Answelica. Neighbor: Yes, Answelica. Me: Tell them they have a goat. That’s…
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August 4, 2021
The Annotated Charlotte’s Web (by E. B. White, with notes and an introduction by Peter F. Neumeyer) is a book that I come back to again and again. My copy is dog-eared, underlined, beloved. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a rewrite of a story, and yesterday, casting about for comfort and…
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June 22, 2021
I walked past a tree house yesterday and suddenly remembered what it was like: being 8 years old, high up in a Jacaranda tree, rough boards against my back, sun on my ankles, green leaves over my head, the rectangle of a book in my hands—the beauty and impossibility and wonder of it. If you…
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June 8, 2021
Franklin Endicott and the Third Key goes out into the world today. I’ll be putting copies in Little Free Libraries around the neighborhood. In this book, Frank learns (among other things) about the profound pleasures of reading aloud. I have this wish: that whoever finds a copy of Franklin Endicott and the Third Key will…