Well, the story is about fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace who have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. They know they are different to ‘normal’ girls but their attempts to find out what being an ordinary teenager are like – buying nice clothes instead of wearing Mum’s odd hand-made garments, reading teenage magazines etc – are greeted with fury by their Dad. But when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it’s like to have a little freedom. Unable to cope with their education and a sick husband, the girls’ mother sends them to the local comp and they experience school life for the first time. Prue had never thought it would be so bitchy and that she’d find it so hard to fit in. The only person she can talk to is her kindly, young, handsome Art teacher, Rax. She and Rax bond over art lessons, and soon he asks to babysit for his young children while he and his wife have a night out on a Friday. This becomes a regular ‘date’ and Prue can’t wait for the ten minutes they have along together as he drives her home. As her feelings for Rax develop, she begins to realise that perhaps he feels the same way about her. But he can’t act upon them, can he?

Don Campbell wrote wonderful book called “Mozart Effect” then looking through this book you will know a lot of interesting things including the beneficial effects of certain types of music.
Some of the benefits are:
Improves test scores
Cuts learning time
Calms hyperactive children and adults
Reduces errors
Improves creativity and clarity
Heals the body faster
Integrates both sides of the brain for more efficient learning
Raises IQ scores 9 points (research done at University of California, Irvine)

It’s really very cognitive and helpful reading not only for parents.
No doubt, music, as a cultural artifact, has a very positive influence on the emotions. And what else you know exactly, that is when we play or sing with our kids together we learn to hear each other and that is also very important. Competing behavior includes also visiting concerns, musical performances and festivals. Since almost everyone has now computer and internet access we have great opportunity to find and buy any needed tickets, though it were concerts, sports, arts, theater, Reading Festival Tickets or just family events thickets. By the way, for all those parents who prefer such kind of music as major rock, indie or alternative acts Festival Tickets are available online now. Anyway check out detailed Reading Festival Information for choosing the most acceptable show for both you and your children visiting. Children under 13 (12 and under) are admitted free but must be accompanied by a ticket holding adult of course.

But their idyll was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry, in both the physical and ideological sense. When the pigs saw the wolf, they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and banged on the door, shouting, “Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!”

The pigs shouted back, “Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture.”

But the wolf wasn’t to be denied what he thought was his manifest destiny. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot pursuit. Where the house of straw had stood, other wolves bought up the land and
started a banana plantation. At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted,

“Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!”

The pigs shouted, “Go to hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!”

At this, the wolf chuckled condescendingly. He thought to himself:
“They are so childlike in their ways. It will be a shame to see them go, but progress cannot be stopped.”

So the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share condo resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fiberglass reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkeling, and dolphin shows.

At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, “Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!”

This time in resp?nse, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.

By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs’ refusal to see the situation from the carnivore’s point of view. So he huffed and he puffed, and huffed and puffed, the grabbed his chest and fell over dead of a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods.

The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their lands. Their new brigade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal health care, and affordable housing for everyone.

Please Note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.

excerpt from J.F.Garner’s book “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories.”

I have a friend
Whose name is …..
And we have fun together.
We laugh and play
And sing all day
In any kind of weather.

The first and best of his Christmas Books, A Christmas Carol has become a Christmas tradition and easily best known Dickens’ book. And maybe till now this book stays as a wonderful Christmas gift for children and not only. Anyway you can find the novel in “Reading Together” section to read “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens together right now.

PERCY H. MUIR writes in the dediocation asressed to Edgar Oppenheimer:
My dear Oppenheimer,
It is fitting that this book should be dedicated to you for, apart from the constant
help and advice which you have given me since I began to write it, it is doubtful
whether, but for you, it would ever have been written at all. Let me explain how
this comes about.

In 1945 I was engaged in planning a publishing venture in which children’s books
were intended to figure very prominently. On my advice the collection of the late
F. R. Bussell was secured as a whole on its being offered at Sotheby’s auction rooms.
The first and only use to which it was put in this country was the Exhibition with
which the National Book League opened its doors at No. 7 Albemarle Street in May
1946. Most of the 1,001 exhibits came from the Bussell Collection.

The publishing venture came to naught; and the books were stored until 1949,
when a selection of them was sent on a touring exhibition in the United States.
Before they were sent to America I secured for my own collection of children’s toys
and games all that was suitable in it; and thereafter my interest in children’s books,
as such, flagged until it was reawakened by your own infectious enthusiasm, and
especially by the fortunate opportunity to see a part of your collection when I was
in New York.

Since then, partly I am happy to say at my instigation, you have acquired the
major portion of the Bussell Collection; and although the gaps caused by my incur­
sions have been remarked upon by you more than once, added to the riches that you
already possess the Bussell books make you the owner of by far the finest collection
in existence of children’s books of all nations.

This book does not presume to teach you anything; neither are its occasionally
controversial opinions intended to commit you to anything. It is no more than a
tribute and an offering to a great collector, and a very good friend.

Yours most sincerely,
PERCY H. MUIR

Takeley, 1953.
This book is very informative and filled perfect factual materials and no dough can be interesting for all book’s lovers.
As a matter of fact there are many books which are commonly regarded as “classic” children’s literature speaks on multiple levels and which are able to be enjoyed by both adults and children and here a good illustration has important role in understanding or interpretation of the text.
I’d like to write more but Bennie does not let me to do it. He wants to go out right now and he is asking me about. So I have to go.
Have a nice day.
(the illustration by Kate Greenaway)

May be you have to start to help to your child right now? First of all reading together is great chance both to learn and to understand what the problem of such situation is. Besides there are great number resources in internet you can find which can help both of you on the way.

(the picture you see here is drawn by me)

During these early years, you have to start to learn you kids to read and to write, primarily through their interaction with books. That said, make sure to starting reading to your child early and often — it will encourage an interest, and it’s a really lovely way to spend time together. When you help their children learn to read, you help them open the door to a new world.

here is several icons with quotes from Harry Potter that I’ve found in inet for her.