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The Island of Lost Children
The Island of Lost Children | Kim Batchelor
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Peter is still the boy who doesn’t grow up. Wendy is a girl who had to grow up too soon. And Wendy’s brother, Michael, has autism and a connection to The Island of Lost Children, a book for readers 8-12 (and those in touch with their internal children). When Peter leaves his island home, it’s to search for pick-up soccer games and mock sword fights. Wendy spends her evenings looking after her two brothers, bratty JJ as well as Michael, while her parents work nights.
In the midst of several unusual events—including the disappearance of her classmate, Lily, at odds with her adoptive mother—Wendy doesn’t realize that Peter’s pirate nemesis is keeping an eye on her. Everything changes for Wendy and her family when a peculiar fairy named Bellatresse helps Peter find the girl whose stories he once listened to outside her bedroom window.
With its quirky humor and occasionally touching moments, The Island of Lost Children is about children creating their own stories, families, and communities, all while swashbuckling, navigating mystical rivers, riding child-made roller coasters, and, of course, sailing high through the open skies.
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My December column in Paris Life, out today, reminding grownups to give children the gift of reading. What is your favorite childhood reading memory? #giftofreading

TrishB My Dad taught me to read before I started school as I was always trying to read the newspapers with him! The school said it was very unhelpful and I had been taught wrongly!! I still buy books as gifts for everyone 😀 7y
Sydsavvy @TrishB really!!! How presumptuous of them! I guess that's kind of like common core math today. 🤔 So very cool that he taught you to read! 7y
MyNamesParadise My momma would read to me every night & take me to the library. My dad would always take me to Barnes & Noble. To this day he still will take me and usually he buys me whatever I want- but he prefers to get me nonfiction bc that's all he will read. I was the kid that would take a book to recess & the monitors would make socialize 🙄 the worst 😜😜 7y
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Sydsavvy @MyNamesParadise that's an awesome story!!! I guess the library and B&N made up for bad monitors? 🤓 7y
lynneamch I fondly recall walking about a half mile with my mom on Saturdays to visit the bookmobile. Favorite memory, though, is during my daughter's childhood. She picked up a can of hot fudge ice cream topping and read "Place in pan of hot water for 5 minutes." She wasn't even 3 yet and I was totally shocked that she could actually read. ? 7y
Sydsavvy @lynneamch goodness! That is amazing! 7y
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