BOOKS AND LIBRARIES: Open up a universe of opportunities
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July 21, 2023 1:00 AM
My students asked me, “Why should we read books?” My answer was that books open up the universe to them. Will you ever be a ship’s captain? Will you ever be a soldier in a trench in World War I? Will you ever be a young orphan who is adopted by two elderly people in Canada to grow up and have many adventures along the way? A great book of my childhood was “Augustus and the River” about a boy on the Mississippi...
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