ABSTRACT
The children wanted to memorize certain poems and rhymes that required some amount of practice, and so I kept returning to Nina Crews’ Neighborhood Mother Goose. And there were the unexpected books that both the children and I enjoyed. I came across Benji Davies’ The Storm Whale, a story about a young child who cares for a whale found on the beach, and then releases the whale back to the ocean with his father. After reading it twice two weeks in a row, we all rejoiced at the story’s closing—“Noi often thought about the storm whale. He hoped that one day, soon … he would see his friend again.” And he does.
