It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau There is a language of imagination. Let’s call it imaginationish. It’s not actually a language, but more of a universal dialect. It is using words to describe things that the eye does not see, the ear does not hear, the […]
Why Story Warren?
Don’t you hate it when people go straight to a section from The Lord of the Rings to explain something important in their lives? It reminds me of the part where the army of Gondor is overrun, hopeless, on the edge of defeat. Their allies in Rohan have not come to help, even though the […]
Device or Story?
Research done at Temple University showed that paper books provide a more positive parent-child interaction for young children–and that electronic books dampen it. (In other words, a picture book helps a child most when it’s paper–not really any surprise to anyone who loves picture books. You know this but you love to hear it from […]
Stories as Mirrors
For years I’ve been making up stories for my kids at bedtime. It started with the two older kids when they were four and six and sharing a room, and at first all the stories were unrelated. Maybe a butterfly king was searching for his lost butterfly crown, or maybe two clouds were racing to […]