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Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful

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I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said.

The rose-way in Giverny, Claude Monet, before 1922 I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said. “You have?” “Yes,” she said. “A human book.” “What book is that?” “A book.” “What was it about?” She led me to the sofa and picked up Spring by Karl Ove Knausgård. It is an autofictive novel about a day in the life of Knausgård and his fourth kid. They are traveling to see the mother who is staying at a…

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