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Reviewed on May 1, 2023 | Professional Reading
Lambert offers 21 essays, divided into four parts loosely arranged around themes of parenting, adoption, race, and healing conversations. These intimate essays celebrate the social and emotional impact of shared reading or "book bonding," a phrase coined by Lambert when she was an educator at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. "Time and again, shared reading has forged a common ground for my children and me as we reach toward each other across the distances between us." Lambert's deeply personal wri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More