Bushwick Asks: What’s Your Favorite Children’s

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After reading The Little Prince once again, this time in preparation for tonight’s show I started thinking about how the book’s meaning and importance has changed for me over time. I liked it when I was young and yet it wasn’t until I was an adult that it took a permanent place in my heart. It’s one of my favorite books of all time and is comforting in times of loss, grief or heartache. When I was a kid, I loved the Berenstain Bears, books I now find heavy-handed and preachy. This got me thinking about how children’s books can change meaning to the reader as they age. I asked the Bushwick performers “what was your favorite children’s book when you were a kid and what is your favorite children’s book now? How has your thoughts on your favorite kid’s book changed as you grew up?” Take a look at what they said.

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10 Quotes from The Little Prince

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Tonight is the night! Original Music Inspired by The Little Prince is at 6pm at the Fremont Abbey. Before you go take a look at some inspiring quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry classic book.

“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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Bookshelf Report: Amanda Winterhalter and the Giant Fist

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The Bookshelf Report is an ongoing series where a Bushwick reader or artist shares a little bit about the books that occupy their shelves.

 

Amanda Winterhalter, Bushwick performer and program volunteer, takes the stage this Saturday at The Bushwick Book Club Presents: Original Music Inspired by The Little Prince. Before we see her then, let’s take a look around her home to see where all her books live.

 

How do you organize your books?

Generally, I order my books by genre (British Lit, American Lit, Poetry, World Lit, Nonfiction/Textbooks, Memoir and Essay, etc.), and then alphabetically by author name within genre. I was an English major, which basically means I joined a very expensive book club for four years and collected a lot of cool novels and anthologies. And I like order and systems. However, I don’t always put books back where they belong.

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5 Facts About The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is arguably one of the most charming children’s books of all time. In preparation for the next Bushwick Book Club Seattle event inspired by the book, I took to the Internet to look for interesting facts about both the book and the author. What I found was a little bit of fascination and even some mystery.

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