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. Bequest of Wings
by Annis Duff |
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. Bequest of Wings (A Family’s Pleasures with Books) was written by Annis Duff in 1944. This is the second printing in 1944. The title comes from a poem:
. A BEQUEST OF WINGS
. by Emily Dickinson
He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust,
He knew no more that he was poor,
Or that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy ways,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
. Long ago, in 1944 to be exact, an American mother, Annis Duff, published a book about children and their reading entitled "Bequest of Wings": A Family's Pleasure With Books.
. It was a gift that heartened all of those who then dealt with the reading of children: parents, librarians and teachers, and, by extension, publishers, booksellers, reviewers, etc. It reinforced what they had always felt and expressed personally but had never proved in their efforts to make readers of the young.
. Basically it contained a formula (delicately expressed over 252 pages) for making avid readers: (1) start reading aloud early (even to a babe in the cradle); (2) keep reading aloud at bedtime; (3) give the young only the best according to their likes and interests; (4) keep reading aloud as a family when the children are older; (5) above all, make reading a pleasurable activity, not a coercive one.
. Result: lifelong readers by the age of eight. According to her second book, her daughter was an avid and discriminating reader as a teenager.
. This is a hard cover book with dust jacket. The price is not clipped (not a BCE). No writing or stamps. Price penciled on first fly page. Pages clean and tight. Light shelf wear. Non smoking storage.
. Beautiful, antique find from a local Bergen County, New Jersey estate. One of many books that were willed to a local library for resale.
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