A Big Book

If you have read Cornelia Funke's book InkHeart, you will have recognized some of ideas in the previous blog. This is one of my favorite new authors and books. Many of the descriptions the author uses to explain how the main character, Meg, feels about books echo my own.
Meg sleeps with a book under her pillow. "Go on, admit it," her father says, "the book whispers its story to you at night." When she holds the book in her hand; "Its pages rustle promisingly".
Every description of books rings true for me so I won't quote them all.
I think it is all the descritions in this book that make me wonder wether some of that will be lost with e books. If you don't open the pages, how can you remember where you were the first time you read it?
One good thing about e books is that you really can't judge a book by its' cover because there often is no cover. A book will be judged on its content not its' appearance. I took this idea from InkHeart. I read to my students from a copy of the book covered in brown paper. I got to the unimaginable part where there is actually a single book Meg is not allowed to read. Not only that but it isn't covered with Mo's craft of leather and satin-but in brown paper. The students began to whisper to each other "That's the book" as I read from my brown paper covered copy.
This is another one of the books I adore that was made into a movie. The movie was fine but I still prefer the book. All 534 delicious pages of it.