如果大家都看書其實也有問題的，就是自己根本沒時間看書。

他女兒可能已長大了，較懂事。

阿包每晚一定要看完/聽完故事書才肯睡。這是從出生至今養成的習慣。今晚看的是Froggy’s Halloween。

說起買書，馬家輝在他新書有一段寫和女兒去歐洲，十字街頭傾盆大雨，大家分手各赴自己心儀書店，約好時間回頭再聚。

如果女兒大了可以是這樣子，就真是日子有功了。

I think I’m still far away to be a good mom. haha…Thanks anyway.

Today we went to the library. The children section was full of kids. But they’re only interested in the computers!!! The bookshelves behind the computer desks were empty!!!!

I have no idea why the mom brought their kids to the library and sat at the computer. I went to another library before. Parents sat with their kids, like me, reading to their children.

this post reminds me the excitement of knowing the new Scholastic book list’s out every new academic year and started to struggle how many to buy! (too expensive to buy all i like ) I just addicted to reading since then! So I hv no idea why the kids in HK nowadays cannot read at all! (not to be offensive)

I have no kids but like Snowdrops, I hv two little young brothers (cousins in fact but my brother [real] and I are the only two who buy books for them). The Filipino maid is very helpful in bringing the kids to library but then they were NOT reading at all! A primary two boy still ’sees’ the pictures only and i’m really sad about this.

you must be a good mother and set up good examples for Ah Bao!

btw… 何紫 is excellent; and I remember that 山邊社; almost all books we read in primary school are from 山邊社

Yes, he was very famous. I like his book a lot. I don’t think there were a lot of children writers in HK. Maybe I’m wrong. But I was lucky to read his book when I was little.

I used to keep my grade one and grade two textbooks at home. But I then realized that there were not enough room for me and of course, they got all thrown out by me later. But I do keep one or two books from my primary school years. I think they’re in my father’s house. All the pages turned yellow already. You know what, they’re craft books. I liked making crafts by myself.

Thanks for your last comment. Actually I’m not the one who encourages her to read at home.

Actually, what I really wished to say in my last comment is that I think Ah Bao is really lucky to have you as her mum, who don’t mind spending time to pick out books that she might like to read. I would have loved to grow up in a house full of books like yours

It’s a graceful story about Grace.

Thanks for your recommendations! I’ll look for those books as well. I remember my favourite children book writer 何紫, I didn’t read a lot of his works since I didn’t have money to buy them and I didn’t know there was such library in the world when I was a kid. I read it in my school’s small library. The book is called 我想飛.

Now that I think about it, it’s funny my family has never been into books and yet I’m still turn out to be a book obsessive! I think I was more influenced by my primary school teachers and classmates than my own family when it comes to reading tastes in my childhood years. My mum allowed me to go to the library and would buy books for me when I bugged her about it, but she never really gave me books as gifts (except when it comes to Chinese puzzles). I guess she felt she didn’t need to further encourage me in reading when I was already picking up textbooks and dictionaries to read just to pass time! I am forever grateful to one childhool pal, who, during a school bookfair, overheard my brother was throwing a tantrum and preventing my mother from buying books for me, and so she very kindly asked her mum to buy those books that I was interested in and then lend them afterwards to me to read! (Her English name is Grace, and I still think that she is one of those people whose names actually match their personalities!)

I’m not sure if you’ve come across Roald Dahl already? He is my favourite children’s author, and his books are great for very young children (such as the BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox, the Twits) as well as young teenagers (such as Matilda, Danny the Champion of the World, etc.). Some of his books have been turned into movies, such as The Witches and James and the Giant Peach. He had a wonderful sense of irreverent humour and never talked down to children (all in past tense as he passed away in the early 90’s, I still remember how sad our whole class felt when we heard the news in school). For young children especially, Roald Dahl’s books are a good way to get them to appreciate the music of the English language, as his books are full of hilarious rhyming verses. I’d really highly recommend them!

佢睇得明先啦。現在選的書都是故事書為主，介紹科學知識、歷史的也有。阿包現在學寫拼字和學寫句子。

我以前看書也看得很雜的，後來興趣慢慢收窄了。你提到的林行止的書可能是我之前在這裡寫過的《閑在心上》，現在在看他的另一本書《我讀我在》，文章篇幅比另一本短。唔，有一本書，林先生多次提到的，我覺得有補充的必要，遲些有時間才寫。

奕：

我比較貪心，喜歡的書要擁有才心安。我也不太喜歡借書給人的，我只會給人書。

去圖書館看書也是一件好事。有些書你想看但並不想擁有。

買左返黎睇完一次之後既書
N年後佢先有機會再比我寵幸
我會覺得要佢獨手空幃咁多年佢會好慘

而且好書應該同人分享
如果比我擁有左佢
我又唔係咁願意借比d唔知係咪劉備既人
當然如果對方都係愛書之人又唔同講法

所以呢我都係中意借書多d
另一個好處就係搬屋唔駛搬咁多野呀嘛

＞鼓勵小朋友睇書，有一樣o野更加重要，就係培育佢睇書o既範圍要闊，唔好限死佢只睇某類型o既書藉

極之同意呀
所以我都係prefer朋友屋企同圖書館多d
嘻嘻