Why Books are Important

From my "Letter from the Editor" in the most recent issue of The Classical Teacher:

In 1929, children’s book author Anne Parrish was visiting Paris. She left her husband at a cafe to visit one of the city’s many bookstores. There she found a copy of Helen Wood’s Jack Frost and Other Stories, a favorite of hers from childhood. She returned to the cafe, sat down, and showed her husband what she had found. He opened the book, turned a couple of pages, and paused. He handed it back to her, opened to the flyleaf. There, in the hand of a child, she read, “Anne Parrish, 209 North Weber Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

The book she had found half a world away turned out to be her very own childhood copy. It was as if she had found a long-lost friend 

A book is just a physical object. And yet, as every book lover knows, it is something more than that...

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