We returned from our trip to Denmark and Norway and I posted three photos on Flickr of the Hans Christian Andersen statue and the Little Mermaid statue. It was so wonderful to be in Copenhagen where there local hero is a children's fairy tale write who wrote over an hundred and fifty years ago. We went to a children's museum with dioramas of his stories such as The Emperor's New Clothes and the Little Match Girl. I had fun in May and June reading Hans Christian Andersen stories to my second and third graders.
The tragic decline in reading - and empathy?
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Americans have traded reading books for social media and gaming ... 16% of
Americans are reading daily for pleasure, a 40% decline over 20 years.
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