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On Being with Krista Tippett
This was described as the author's newest book at the time of the episode, and is about a boy who learns to read, and the joy and wonder it brings to him. The story was described as similar to the speaker's own experience of learning to read, and a feeling of a door pushing open inside of him, leading to a lighted room.
Tell me is this Beatrice saying this instructing each letter has a shape and each letter has a sound and you put these shapes and sounds together and they become words. Do you understand? I he said to...
— Episode: [Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Ti...
Episode: [Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett
This was described as the author's newest book at the time of the episode, and is about a boy who learns to read, and the joy and wonder it brings to him. The story was described as similar to the speaker's own experience of learning to read, and a feeling of a door pushing open inside of him, leading to a lighted room.
Tell me is this Beatrice saying this instructing each letter has a shape and each letter has a sound and you put these shapes and sounds together and they become words. Do you understand? I he said to her his heart was beating fast.
He did not know he had not understood how much he wanted it to know the secret of letters and sounds and words but his heart pounding against his ribcage was telling him he watched the letters appear one by one beneath her hand and he felt as if each letter or a door pushed open inside of him a door that led to a lighted room.
Yeah. I say it's so I'm nodding my head as you read not because I it just that's how it feels you know. It just it's a bodily feeling.