“Around the World” Week at One Book Two Book
August 10, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Parenting
We’ll travel “Around the World” this week, and will include some of more Olympics posts, too. This continues our summer program of having a different theme each week and tying in with Camp Weary Parent.
Do you have a favorite country you’ve visited or like to read about? What books about other countries interest you?
I loved reading Heidi by Johanna Spyri and learning about Switzerland when I was a child. Actually, Mother read this to us four children as a bedtime story. We’d pile on a different bed each night while she read a chapter.
Then on rainy days, we might pretend we were in Switzerland, building Grandfather’s hut with chairs and blankets, making a lunch of cheese and bread and climbing up and down stairs as we trekked the mountains. Our dog had to be a “pretend” goat.
With my grandchildren, we watch the various versions of the Heidi movies.
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(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen
