The Book Fairy
Sep. 25th, 2011 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerYou guys! I just had the best idea ever! I'm going to be a book fairy!
See, I was walking through the downtown and ran into the local used bookstore. In the window it advertised: "Children's book $1!"
And I thought: "I'm tutoring children in reading. WHAT BETTER THAN TO GIVE THEM BOOKS?"
(The summer after second grade, the teacher of my summer Spanish class gave me a copy of Number the Stars. I was already a reader, but the book triggered an interest in 'escaping the Nazis' books, so much that I actually wrote one in third grade. Except the heroine wasn't Jewish, because I realized I knew nothing about Jewish people, a flash of insight that somehow did not extend to "Dutch people," "Nazis," or "World War II." Oh well.)
So! I will be passing his kindly gesture onward to my own students! When they graduate from the program, or have a birthday, or at Christmastime, the second and third graders will get to pick a book from my overflowing shelves!
(Should I include the first graders? They can't actually read yet - well, I'm sure some of them can, but not the ones I'll be working with. But, on the other hand: giving away more books!)
It's the perfect age, too; second and third graders are just on the cusp of the age where books can become the center of the universe.
AND I GET TO BUY STACKS AND STACKS OF BELOVED FAVORITES TO SHARE. This is going to be so much fun!
See, I was walking through the downtown and ran into the local used bookstore. In the window it advertised: "Children's book $1!"
And I thought: "I'm tutoring children in reading. WHAT BETTER THAN TO GIVE THEM BOOKS?"
(The summer after second grade, the teacher of my summer Spanish class gave me a copy of Number the Stars. I was already a reader, but the book triggered an interest in 'escaping the Nazis' books, so much that I actually wrote one in third grade. Except the heroine wasn't Jewish, because I realized I knew nothing about Jewish people, a flash of insight that somehow did not extend to "Dutch people," "Nazis," or "World War II." Oh well.)
So! I will be passing his kindly gesture onward to my own students! When they graduate from the program, or have a birthday, or at Christmastime, the second and third graders will get to pick a book from my overflowing shelves!
(Should I include the first graders? They can't actually read yet - well, I'm sure some of them can, but not the ones I'll be working with. But, on the other hand: giving away more books!)
It's the perfect age, too; second and third graders are just on the cusp of the age where books can become the center of the universe.
AND I GET TO BUY STACKS AND STACKS OF BELOVED FAVORITES TO SHARE. This is going to be so much fun!
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Date: 2011-09-26 11:36 pm (UTC)You'll be an awesome book fairy: passing on all your favourites to the lucky kids! :D
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Date: 2011-09-28 12:39 am (UTC)Sadly they're a little too young and low-reading-level for my favorite favorites, but I'm at least giving them books I really liked! Although it occurs to me I should stock a few copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and other things that Kids These Days like.