{"id":26,"date":"2005-05-22T21:59:49","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T04:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-05-22T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T05:00:05","slug":"childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Childrens Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember that as a child I read Winnie the Pooh<\/em>, all manner of fairytales, Eloise<\/em>, Madeline<\/em>, Stuart Little<\/em>, and Charlotte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web<\/em>, but the story that stands out most is The Little Engine That Could<\/em>. I grew up believing that you could do anything if you put your mind to it. I still believe that.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any children, but I do have some children’s books on my shelf, mostly a few of my own tattered and scribbled upon childhood tomes that I somehow rescued from the give-it-away or trash piles. The Little Engine That Could<\/a><\/em> was not among them, so a few years ago, for what reason I can no longer recall, I bought a brand new copy from a 1991 printing. The original copyright year is 1930 — that’s what I call a long shelf life.<\/p>\n

Even as a child, I loved biographies, but I remember listening to more biographies than I read. I think it was Riverside Records that had a wonderful series of recordings called “A Child’s Introduction to…” Each record was the story of a different composer, narrative tales with sound effects and, of course, music. I knew the life stories of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart as if they were my best friends. The series no longer exists, but I do look for it from time to time, hoping that someone will discover the masters and reissue these aural productions on CD. Meanwhile, I still like Peter and the Wolf<\/em> along with the Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra<\/em><\/a>, and a few years ago I found some good audio children’s tales, notably Beethoven Lives Upstairs<\/a><\/em> and Mr. Bach Comes to Call<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the last few years I have bought a few “new” children’s books, all of them about artists of one sort or another. A real favorite of mine is a very creative tale called When Pigasso Met Mootisse<\/a><\/em>, by Nina Laden (Chronicle Books). Hyperion Books for Children have some great biographies — the two on my shelf are Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa<\/a><\/em>, and Alvin Ailey<\/a><\/em>, both by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney. My most recent acquisition is Roxanne Orgill’s If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong<\/a><\/em> with illutrations by Leonard Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin Company).<\/p>\n

What’s on your shelf – past or present? What books you remember from your childhood? What are the children you know reading today? Send me an email [devra AT devradowrite.com] and I will compile and post a list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember that as a child I read Winnie the Pooh, all manner of fairytales, Eloise, Madeline, Stuart Little, and Charlotte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web, but the story that stands out most is The Little Engine That Could. I grew up believing that you could do anything if you put your mind to it. I still believe that. … Continue reading “Childrens Stories”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discerning-ears","category-reading-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}