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About a review of "1001 Books to Read Before You Die" by Peter Boxall (www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/books/book_reviews/), Stephanie DeKeyser (http://openmindinsertbook.blogspot.com ) of Bourbonnais, Ill., writes: "I'm always trying to read books that are "good" for me, the ones that were assigned to us in high school, the ones we all groaned at. I resolved to start reading those kinds of books a few years back, but wondered how on earth I could get through long winding paragraphs in fancy language when I had an infant son babbling at me. And then I realized the solution.

"I read out loud to him. :) The infant is now about to turn six, and he's played while listening to Mom read Dickens, Hemingway, .G. Wells, Steinbeck, Lewis Carroll, RL Stevenson, Stephen Crane, and many others. Don't worry, he still gets plenty of Silverstein and Seuss, too. ;) But at almost 6, he's got an impressive vocabulary, a fabulous grasp of grammar, and he's able to read chapter books on his own. I hope that some of my reading aloud has helped him to learn to enjoy all kinds of books.

"What's next on our list? I'm not sure...He expressed interest in Frankenstein the other day, so maybe that will be it!"

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