Family, Publishing

For A Lot Of Book Lovers, Rereading Old Favorites Is The Only Reading They Can Manage At The Moment

08 Jul

If you’ve been rereading books you adore, welcome to the club. Like a well-loved blanket and a favorite set of jammies, familiar books, worlds and stories may be exactly what you need when everything both changes by the minute and remains relentlessly the same. (Breaking news: The couch is still comfortable, and I am still on it.)

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Camp Caribu, Family, Publishing

What’s The Story Behind ‘The Railway Children’?

17 Jun

Curious about the history behind the mysterious book ‘The Railway Children,’ featured in #CampCaribu’s Week 2 ‘Father Figures’ Reading List? The tale begins in a decadent Victorian home, where the children Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis have everything they want. However, the story continues ominously, “on Peter’s eighth birthday, the trouble began.”

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