This book bought back all those memories. We got extremely sunburnt but it was one of my favourite memories with my dad. My dad and I were reading Charlotte's Web (another great book) we took it on our hike up hanging rock and dad and I found a ill crevice where we sat for over an hour and he read me chapters 5-8. "This book reminded me of when my family went on our family holiday to Melbourne and I was about 6. Rowling, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and Shakespeare's plays. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college.Īlice approaches her book as a series of vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he read to her.īooks included in the Streak were: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Oz books by L. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights.
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