A book of spells, the key to wonders

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Ann Morgan @A_B_Morgan · 23h
My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders.

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[flying_wahini]

1. How wonderful to watch magic as it happens in real life.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. :)

[NBachers]

3. Visiting my seven year old granddaughter yesterday, watching her read her books and reading the stories she had written,

watching her practice her own invented dance routines, I said “She is magic.“

[txwhitedove]

4. So beautiful, this speaks to me. My grandparents raised me, with a huge red 1940's Webster Dictionary

used as a booster seat at the table. All through my youth I actually read this dictionary, with pictures, tables, foreign languages, and on. This dictionary is tattered, in need of repair, but proudly sits on my living room side table. Grandparents were Oklahoma red dirt farm kids who went to college, became teachers who considered books sacred. The key to wonders, indeed.

[Xavier Breath]

5. I had a red Webster's dictionary too in the 1970s

with a, well, I hesitate to call it a cloth cover, but that textured cover. It sat on the bar in our kitchen, and I used it throughout my formative years. I wish I knew what became of it. My Mom probably pitched it at some point, I guess.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. She's right. Words have power and the pen is mightier than the sword. . . . nt

[Mr.Bill]

7. My wife is a total book hound.

She has read several books a week since she learned how to read. She says that when she was a little girl, her parents, as punishment when she was bad, would take away her books for a brief period of time. She says it was a most effective penalty.