Comments on: Schoolday reading http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/08/10609/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: D. C. DaCosta http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/08/10609/comment-page-1/#comment-38511 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 03:55:26 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10609#comment-38511 I was blessed to have two teachers who were very talented at reading aloud.

The fifth grade teacher chose “The Ghost in the Noonday Sun”, a wonderful pirate tale that I ended up reading to my kids later.
The seventh grade teacher (yes, as late as seventh grade she was reading to us!) chose “Treasure Island”.

I remember these, not because I have a fixation with pirates, but because both these ladies read with enthusiasm and wonder — and actually made “voices” for the more menacing characters.

]]> By: Simone http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/08/10609/comment-page-1/#comment-38506 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:27:59 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10609#comment-38506 Reading was my favorite part of school too, but I read so much outside of it too that I don’t remember the assigned books as well as the ones I read on my own. I loved “Superfudge” by Judy Blume and remembered random things from it like the way the sink in their new house had separate taps for hot and cold water. Also the Ramona Quimby books, from which I’ll always remember the NOSMO KING sign and her teacher’s wrinkled pantyhose. “The Four Story Mistake” by Elizabeth Enright taught me the word cupola! And the name Rush which I thought was awesome until I grew up and found out about Rush Limbaugh… “Eloise” was fascinating because who knew people could live in a hotel?

I do enjoy looking up the ones I only vaguely remember, like “The Little White Horse” by Elizabeth Goudge.

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