Ler II

Elizabeth Shippen Green, The Library (Link).

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Paul Thurlby, L for librarian (Link)

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«La vertu paradoxale de la lecture est de nous abstraire du monde pour lui trouver un sens».

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Daniel Pennac.

Dia do Livro Infantil (2 de Abril)

Elizabeth Shippen Green, Mind of a Child (Dez. 1906, Harpers Monthly Magazine) - imagem retirada de Beautiful Century.

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«Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!»
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Dr. Seuss.

Refúgios...

Elizabeth Shippen Green, Five Little Pigs.
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«The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency».

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Susan Allen Toth.
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Por mera curiosidade:

«The Five Little Pigs» é uma nursery rhyme:

This little pig went to the market.
This little pig stayed home.
This little pig had roast beef.
This little pig had none.
This little pig cried "Wee, wee, wee, wee!"
All the way home.

Há edições antigas e ilustradas, uma delas com uma história associada, editada cerca de 1880, pela McLoughlin Bros (New York). No entanto, não encontrei a edição que a menina e a senhora estão a ler, apesar de estar quase certa que é esta, de 1903, de Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954) e de Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935), intitulada «The book of the child» (imagem retirada daqui).