Mandy Eve-Barnett's Blog for Readers & Writers

We all know the importance of reading to our children. Not only does it build a parental connection with them and give them their first introduction into letters and words, but also how they can become part of a story’s characters world with their imagination. In a world flooded with visual images and games that do the work for them, a book is a treasure for their mind. This week we celebrate: National Tell a Story Day on 27th April.

Can you remember the first story you fell in love with?

I loved Hiawatha, Wind in the Willows, and Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

We also celebrate this week the end of poetry month with Poem in Your Pocket Day on 30th April.

As many of you know poetry isn’t my thing, however I do indulge on occasion and have submitted a couple for my writing groups annual poetry challenge this year. If my poems are approved they will be included in an anthology later this year.

Do you have a favourite poem?

When I was young I remember my mother reciting these two. The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear and Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. When I grew older this one was recited in my English class. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth.