Tag: child
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June 27, 2023
Do you know this mouse? This little sculpture of Despereaux was given to me a long time ago. I was doing a signing at Book Passage in San Francisco and a young girl came through the line and presented the mouse to me. She had made him as a project for art class, and wanted…
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January 24, 2023
Ramona and I were taking a walk on a cloudy day last week. We passed the library doors just as a mother and child exited. The child (four or five years old) was carrying a stack of books. CHILD: So right now, we will go home and read. We will read and read and read.…
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April 26, 2022
I met a mother and her four-year-old daughter on a recent walk. Mother: Honey, this is the lady who wrote the books about Mercy! Child: Mercy Watson. Mother: Yes. Mercy Watson! Me: Hi. Do you like Mercy Watson? Child: (silent nod) Mother: This lady made up Mercy and her stories. Can you believe it? Child:…
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March 29, 2022
A few summers ago, I overheard a short exchange between a child and a parent. The two of them were walking down the street when the kid stopped and bent over, inspecting something on the sidewalk. The father kept walking, and the kid called out to him, “Wait! This is important.” What was it that…
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January 18, 2022
I was standing in the grocery store checkout line, and a small boy walked past me—once, twice, three times. When he came back the fourth time, he was holding his mother’s hand. “That’s her,” he said. He pointed at me. “Don’t point, honey,” said his mother. And then to me she said, “My son’s class…
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February 20, 2020
I was in California last week and I had a child come up to me and say: “You know how Despereaux’s mother arrived at the castle in the luggage of a visiting diplomat?” “Yes,” I said. “I do know.” “Well,” said this child, “do you have mice in your suitcase?” “I suppose you could say…