Kiddo Books and Imagination

Do you as an adult occasionally read children’s books?

Not only to your kids or because you’re a teacher, but for your own sake? Here’s why I recommend it and do so myself once in a blue moon; a habit started during the pandemic:

There is a certain playfulness we lose as we get saddled with a slew of adult responsibilities + worldly angst and immersing in spots of childlike wonder can be super refreshing, a mini recharge!

If you’re a creative person, imagination is key and the mad, unbridled imagination of kids books can help unlock blocked parts of your overwhelmed adult brain.

Short and satisfying between other weighty reads!

Kiddo books enjoyed recently: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book which just like his other kids book, Coraline, tugs playfully & lightly at all the dark parts of existence, whether you’re a child or not! Beautifully done.

Roald Dahl’s The Big Friendly Giant - My eight-year-old’s favourite that I gobbled up in a hotel room in Boston recently between hefty editing sessions of my own first novel. The shenanigans of the giant & the orphaned girl served as the perfect chuckle break; laughed so hard at all the crazy words Dahl has invented like gobblefunk, humplecrimp, fizzwiggler, and gumfrog. :)

If you have kid book suggestions too, send away!!! Happy reading and laughing!