Comments on: Poetry Can Change the World – Or At Least, How We View the World http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/julie-andrews-collection-of-poems-songs-lullabies/ Raising the Next Generation of Readers and Writers Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:02:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Heilan Yvette Grimes http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/julie-andrews-collection-of-poems-songs-lullabies/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Heilan Yvette Grimes Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:47:09 +0000 http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/?p=547#comment-6 I've read this book straight through twice. Now I pick it up and just choose a page at random. There are very few books I've read where I can say I feel calm and peaceful reading them. This is definitely one. And, don't be surprised if you catch yourself smiling as you read it. Julie Andrews Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies will be high on my Christmas giving list this December. So, that bump in sales in the Boston area is me. I’ve read this book straight through twice. Now I pick it up and just choose a page at random. There are very few books I’ve read where I can say I feel calm and peaceful reading them. This is definitely one. And, don’t be surprised if you catch yourself smiling as you read it. Julie Andrews Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies will be high on my Christmas giving list this December. So, that bump in sales in the Boston area is me.

]]> By: SCB (SmallCityBeth) http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/julie-andrews-collection-of-poems-songs-lullabies/comment-page-1/#comment-4 SCB (SmallCityBeth) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:03:38 +0000 http://www.emmawaltonhamilton.com/?p=547#comment-4 Further to your thoughts of reading poetry aloud being the "perfect shared family experience", that doesn't just apply to reading to children! My mother (age 88) has just moved into a different nursing home (four nursing homes since November 6 2008 -- this time last year, she and Dad were still living independently, now they're in separate nursing homes). The evening before the move, I was talking to her on the phone, and I said, "May I read you one of Julie's poems?" (Mum & I often recite poetry to each other -- we have done for years. She taught me long ago -- I'm nearly 53 -- to love the music in words and particularly in poetry) I went from one poem to another to another. She loved them all, especially "Wildflowers" and "Bedtime Blessing". I also read "Not While I'm Around" to her, because in the first nursing home she was in, if she was anxious in the night, one of the dear staff members would sing that to her. Yesterday, as Mum was settling into the new-to-her nursing home, I decided that a moving-day present was in order, so I bought her a copy of Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies. She was delighted with it. Thank you so much for this wonderful book. I plan to give it to several people who are grandparents -- people who don't usually receive gifts from me will do so this year! Further to your thoughts of reading poetry aloud being the “perfect shared family experience”, that doesn’t just apply to reading to children! My mother (age 88) has just moved into a different nursing home (four nursing homes since November 6 2008 — this time last year, she and Dad were still living independently, now they’re in separate nursing homes). The evening before the move, I was talking to her on the phone, and I said, “May I read you one of Julie’s poems?” (Mum & I often recite poetry to each other — we have done for years. She taught me long ago — I’m nearly 53 — to love the music in words and particularly in poetry) I went from one poem to another to another. She loved them all, especially “Wildflowers” and “Bedtime Blessing”. I also read “Not While I’m Around” to her, because in the first nursing home she was in, if she was anxious in the night, one of the dear staff members would sing that to her. Yesterday, as Mum was settling into the new-to-her nursing home, I decided that a moving-day present was in order, so I bought her a copy of Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies. She was delighted with it.

Thank you so much for this wonderful book. I plan to give it to several people who are grandparents — people who don’t usually receive gifts from me will do so this year!

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