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Special Announcement: A New Chapter in Life (Patreon)

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2025-08-16 20:51:27
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Dear Book Club Readers,

You are all incredibly special to me and it is a continued joy journeying through these great works of literature with you.

I would love to share a very special announcement about an exciting new chapter in my personal life with you.

The video above goes into the news and also covers information about upcoming discussions for the rest of the books we will be diving into this year.

Thank you for making this such a beautiful literary oasis!

Love & best wishes,

Benjamin

P.S. I would love to know your favourite works of children's literature. Let us know: when did you first start reading? Parents and future parents, do you/will you read to your kids? And do you have any advice for first time parents?

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Special Announcement: A New Chapter

0:00 my special announcement 1:00 how my beloved Sasha is doing 2:00 reviewing our great reading year 3:00 how to live the great books 4:00 returning to children’s literature 5:00 paternity time around the birth 6:00 practical consideration for lectures 7:00 Shakespeare complete ranking 8:00 update for Finnegans Wake 10:00 expressing my gratitude for you 11:00 back catalogue books to explore 13:00 some bookish questions for you

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Kari Conroy

Congratulations and how thrilling! Welcome little Evie!! For wee little ones, the favorites my husband and I enjoyed reading to our own three children were Wynken Blynken, and Nod. Anything illustrated by Hilary Knight like Cinderella or Captain Boldheart. Anything illustrated by Sylvia Long like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Snug as a Bug. All the Old Mother Westwind stories..try and hold back those Merry Little Breezes "chug-arum!" Beatrix Potter. Winnie-the-Poo. Mother Goose. Robert Louis Stevenson's a Child's Garden of Verses. The Joy Street books. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear. Can't wait to hear all the gems to be discovered in the sea of children literature. Happy voyaging in the Land of Nod....

Teresa Anne Rust

I am trying not to repeat what has already been suggested by others. My recommendations would be: A good Mother Goose Rhymes book. Looks like you have Beatrix Potter and A. A. Milne. A children's book of poems, there are so many great ones. All the books illustrated by Shirley Hughes, particularly, her Alfie and Annie Rose books. Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion. For when she is older, Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

David G Franco

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales". - Einstein - I can attest to the effectiveness of this process. I read extensively to my daughter .... now she is a deep voluminous reader.

Dylan D. Erwin

When both of my kiddos were infants, I used to read them Tolkien. Even though they couldn’t understand, it was a way for us to grow closer because they learned that the sound of my voice was something comforting. As they got older, my wife and I became really big fans of the BabyLit series that takes the classics and uses them to talk about a specific topic or topics—Peter Pan to discuss “adventurous” verbs, Les Miserables as a French primer, Don Quixote as a Spanish primer, Moby Dick as an oceans primer, etc… I can’t recommend them enough. Now that my oldest is almost four, I can see the fruits of a literary upbringing. She proudly identifies as a “Jo” of Little Women fame, and prefers the company of books to her iPad-bound contemporaries. My wife and I couldn’t be more proud. Some advice, make some room on your lower bookshelves to be HER shelves. It will help her to feel a sense of ownership and pride: “these are my books that I can take down and read whenever I want!” I could go on and on, as love of reading and child literacy is something about which my wife and I are incredibly passionate.

Melanie O'Brien

Congratulations! My 'baby' is now twenty, and was always more visual in her learning. No surprise to any of us that she's studying fine art. My picks are for a little bit further down the line, but the Chronicles of Narnia were great for her learning to form pictures from words in her mind, especially The Horse and His Boy. Favourites from my own childhood were Tom's Midnight Garden, and Sounder (which still makes me cry). Wonderful times ahead…

Kaley Lilley

Congratulations on this amazing new journey! Parenthood gives life a depth you never knew possible. What a gift :) I am thrilled for you! Prayers for Baby’s safe arrival. Chronicles of Narnia, for sure.

Libby Bundrick

My kids love anything by Roald Dahl, The Little Princess, Secret Garden, Winnie the Pooh of course, and The Wind and the Willows with original illustrations. 💕 Going back through children’s classics as an adult is so special. I was a voracious reader as a child, but had forgotten just how good these classics are!

Kelsey

Congratulations!! Some of my fondest childhood memories are reading the Harry Potter series with my mom, begging for just one more chapter before bed. I also remember reading A Wrinkle In Time with her :) Though, you should know that it doesn’t matter WHAT exactly you read with your daughter— the act alone and the bonding experience will stay with the two of you forever. 🩷 Best wishes!

Kell

Congratulations! Love the everyman's collection of children's books 📚

Meems Kasovich

Congratulations Ben! Parenthood is forever. You never stop being a father. It is an extraordinary ride filled with hope, adventure, laughter, tears, joy, and love like never before. It is also heartbreaking, challenging, and hard. For your child's first 18 years, every day is a gift. Being a mother has been my most important journey in life. Extremely rewarding and fulfilling. My father was an extraordinary man—an intellectual and thoughtful father. I believe you, too, will be an extraordinary father. My first memory of being in an elementary school library starts in the 4th grade. I remember feeling overwhelmed while being extremely excited. My very first book I checked out of the library was Huckleberry Finn. I chose this book simply because it had "berry" in the title. My surname is indeed Berry. I took it home and fell in love with not only the novel but with reading itself. Here today, I am 62 years old. I have never stopped reading. I'm so happy to have you appear in my YouTube feed. I must thank the algorithm. Ha! The first book I read to my son was Charlotte's Web when he was 2 years old. Now, I am a grandmother of two brilliant beings. This past Christmas, they received The Velveteen Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, The Secret Garden, and James Herriott's Treasury for Children. Again, Congratulations.