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    ReadingMagic -What kid's book did/do you read to your kids over & over & over & over & over...Day 27
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 13, 2021
    • 5 min

    ReadingMagic -What kid's book did/do you read to your kids over & over & over & over & over...Day 27

    THE BIG BOOK. That's what we call it. We have literally thousands of books in our home, But when we say "the big book," there's only one th
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    ReadingMagic - What books have you read as a family? - Day 26 -The Fife Fam Fav's List
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    ReadingMagic - What books have you read as a family? - Day 26 -The Fife Fam Fav's List

    This is what my wife & I could remember that we've read to the kids in the last 12 or so years. We take turns picking which book to read.
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    ReadingMagic - What Funny books do you remember from your childhood? part 2 - Day 24
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 3 min

    ReadingMagic - What Funny books do you remember from your childhood? part 2 - Day 24

    if not apparent from my posts, I'm rather fond of the absurd. I was pleased as punch when I found out as an adult that Silverstein also wro
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    #ReadingMagic - What Nonfiction book captured your attention as a kid? Day 21
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    #ReadingMagic - What Nonfiction book captured your attention as a kid? Day 21

    I don't remember which teacher it was that read it to me, but I know somewhere between 2nd & 4th grade I was read Sacajawea at school.
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    ReadingMagic - Who are three of your favorite characters from YA books & why? Day 20
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 4 min

    ReadingMagic - Who are three of your favorite characters from YA books & why? Day 20

    have three characters from books for youth or from my youth that I have loved since I first read them. First is Digory Kirke from The Magi
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    ReadingMagic -When you were a kid, what kind of book characters did you relate to? Day 18
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 3, 2021
    • 2 min

    ReadingMagic -When you were a kid, what kind of book characters did you relate to? Day 18

    So as a kid, I primarily identified with the outsider kids in books. Not necessarily socially backward, but seldom were these characters
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    ReadingMagic - Are you related to any writers? Did you read any of their books as a kid? - Day 17
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    ReadingMagic - Are you related to any writers? Did you read any of their books as a kid? - Day 17

    I knew that my great aunt had been an author. This would have remained undiscovered upon my bookshelf were it not for our nightly readaloud
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    ReadingMagic - What was your favorite genre of books you read as a child? Is it still? Day 16
    Benjamin Fife
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    ReadingMagic - What was your favorite genre of books you read as a child? Is it still? Day 16

    I have always & do still love fantasy. When you're looking at lists of books, they really love to lump Fantasy & Sci-fi together.
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    ReadingMagic -Was there something else that ever got you excited about reading? Day 15 #readingmagic
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    ReadingMagic -Was there something else that ever got you excited about reading? Day 15 #readingmagic

    Levar Burton talked to kids about books for kids, but I never felt talked down to. And that was something I was very sensitive to as a kid.
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    ReadingMagic -What kids books have you discovered as an adult you wish you had read as a kid? Day 14
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 30, 2021
    • 1 min

    ReadingMagic -What kids books have you discovered as an adult you wish you had read as a kid? Day 14

    Being an animal lover from a very young age, I would have adored all of James Herriot's books. But... I didn't really grow up in an animal
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    ReadingMagic -What was the first movie turned into a book that you read the book? - Day 11
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    ReadingMagic -What was the first movie turned into a book that you read the book? - Day 11

    Is there a book written after the movie that you've particularly enjoyed? Ladyhawke for me. Reading enhances the movie & vice versa
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    ReadingMagic - What was the first book you remember crying in? The Reading Magic Game Day 10
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    ReadingMagic - What was the first book you remember crying in? The Reading Magic Game Day 10

    The ending was also bittersweet & the separation of friends, mentors, and a good many other things that I don't want to get into without spo
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    ReadingMagic -Which character you read about as a child would you become for a day? - Day 9
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    ReadingMagic -Which character you read about as a child would you become for a day? - Day 9

    Will Stanton had not been anything remarkable before that. But he was suddenly called upon to take upon him the mantle of an ancient herit
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    Reading Magic - Have you found any books as an adult that you read as a kid & forgot about? - Day 7
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    Reading Magic - Have you found any books as an adult that you read as a kid & forgot about? - Day 7

    The book, Me Too Iguana, is part of the Sweet Pickles series that my sister had Iguana becomes the ultimate copycat & wants to have somethin
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    ReadingMagic - Do you still own any books that you had as a kid? - the Reading Magic Game - Day 6
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    ReadingMagic - Do you still own any books that you had as a kid? - the Reading Magic Game - Day 6

    I do remember tracing the characters outlines on the cover. I remembered the characters. I remembered the solution to the puzzle. I remem
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    ReadingMagic - How have you encouraged your kids to read for fun?  -The Reading Magic GameDay 5
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 19, 2021
    • 2 min

    ReadingMagic - How have you encouraged your kids to read for fun? -The Reading Magic GameDay 5

    When anyone finds a book they love, we're delighted to share it with each other. Our house gradually gets smaller and smaller as we add bo
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    ReadingMagic - When did you first discover that reading could be fun? - The Reading Magic Game day 4
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 18, 2021
    • 3 min

    ReadingMagic - When did you first discover that reading could be fun? - The Reading Magic Game day 4

    I remember sitting at the end of the hall in our basement next to my oldest brother’s room reading, and reading, and reading on the floor by
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    ReadingMagic - Who are your favorite authors of kids books and why? - The Reading Magic Game Day 3
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 18, 2021
    • 2 min

    ReadingMagic - Who are your favorite authors of kids books and why? - The Reading Magic Game Day 3

    No one else draws like Dr. Seuss. Others may emulate, but it's like copying Van Gogh or the unique vibrato of Louis Armstrong’s trumpet.
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    ReadingMagic - What was your favorite animal book or story and why? - The Reading Magic Game Day 2
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 16, 2021
    • 3 min

    ReadingMagic - What was your favorite animal book or story and why? - The Reading Magic Game Day 2

    How about you? What animal books did you connect with as a kid? Have any affected how you treat animals?
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    #readingmagic - What was your favorite book growing up? - The Reading Magic Game Day 1
    Benjamin Fife
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    #readingmagic - What was your favorite book growing up? - The Reading Magic Game Day 1

    I don't own Dr. Seuss' brilliant gem I adored more than any other book when I was 7-8 years old. My elementary school library that year pro
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