May 27, 2020
This week I'm reading MASKED BLESSINGS by RUBEENA IANIGRO. This sensuous poem charts an evolution from passion to ecstasy, to rage to little hip checks of jokes (via a clock!) to a spiritual evolution on the narrator's terms. What?!? How does all that happen in one poem? Come hear Rubeena wield power on the page — and...
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Today on READ TO ME, we cook dinner with the greatest heroine in
children's literature. Heck, all of literature! Ramona Quimby, Age
8 by Beverly Cleary.
I wonder if Beverly Cleary chased after Ramona, like
a mom gasping after a fast toddler. Or I wonder if writing Ramona
was like coming to a buffet table always full....