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March 11, 2009
Some of the great fun of being a parent is reading children's books again. Not always for the umpteenth time in a row, though sometimes even then... Many of them are so exquisite, so truly delightful or wondrous or intriguing or clever that we are glad to have gotten the chance to re-read them.
This perspective from Robertson Davies, a great man of letters himself, reminds us to keep up with that re-reading as great books evolve over time. Or, more precisely, we do.
-- Robertson Davies
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