Monday, December 14, 2009

Re: all school PK- 12 read

I would second The Little Prince. Over the years, I've enjoyed this book
(and the movie) many times, and seem to get more out of it each time. The
book was assigned reading for a college psych class, with the unusual twist
that we had to read it three times during the semester. Even though I was
already very familiar with the book, I found new ways to interpret and
understand the story as an adult.

If you can get a copy of the film version (starring, among others, Gene
Wilder and Bob Fosse), you could make the story accessible even to PK.

Dan Berger
JPDSNC
Washington, DC


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Subject: Re: all school PK- 12 read

My English-teaching spouse suggests /Naomi's Road /for younger students
and /Obasan/ for older readers (both by Joy Kogawa - same
autobiographical story, different levels). She also suggests /The
Little Prince/ which has only the one version but is accessible (and
meaningful) to all.

Brad

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