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The guest highlighted the joy of reading Prelutsky's poetry collections with her young son, emphasizing the fun, rhythmic language that makes poetry accessible to children.
And the other thing, you know, I've got a three and a half year old son at home. ... So any of the children's poetry anthologies from Jack Proletsky, just that reading and language is fun. It is not a...
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The guest highlighted the joy of reading Prelutsky's poetry collections with her young son, emphasizing the fun, rhythmic language that makes poetry accessible to children.
And the other thing, you know, I've got a three and a half year old son at home. ... So any of the children's poetry anthologies from Jack Proletsky, just that reading and language is fun. It is not academic. It is not for getting a good grade. It is joy. It is joy. And like the rhythm and the cadence and like moving it from a strictly like absolute, like rote ABCs to like the pleasure of rhyming things and just like having fun.