Novels

Remembrance Day – November 11th

/ Carolyn Watson

 

On Remembrance Day 1999, Terry Kelly was in a grocery store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

At 10:55 a.m. an announcement came over the store’s PA asking customers who would be on the premises at 11:00 a.m. to observe two minutes of silence in respect to the veterans who sacrificed so much for us.  All customers and staff observed the two minutes except for one man.  This song came out of that experience.

My grandfather lied about his age to enlist.  At seventeen years old, he fought in World War I.  The experience haunted him until his death at 96 years old.

I will be observing the two minutes of silence.

Anna Dewdney, Children’s Author and Illustrator

/ Carolyn Watson

(Born December 25, 1965 – Died September 3, 2016 Aged 50)

“When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language,” she wrote. “We are doing something that I believe is just as powerful, and it is something that we are losing as a culture: by reading with a child, we are teaching that child to be human. When we open a book, and share our voice and imagination with a child, that child learns to see the world through someone else’s eyes.”

The Shelter Buddies Reading Program

/ Carolyn Watson

This is such a great idea.

 

“The Shelter Buddies Reading Program at the Humane Society of Missouri was designed to help our shelter dogs become more adoptable. Participants sit outside of the dogs kennel and read to them, which helps shy dogs learn to relax around people, while teaching high-energy dogs that calm behavior is desirable. When children read stories to the dogs, it also helps them develop their own reading skills.”

For more information visit http://www.hsmo.org/education

See also:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/shelter-buddies-reading-program?context=featured