A Castle of Words

What ever value there is in studying literature, cultural or practical, comes from the total body of our reading, the castle of words we've built, and keep adding new wings to all the time.

Northrup Frye

In order to foster an awareness of the patterns shared even by widely different works of literature, we need to provide children with diverse experiences of literature--with the simple and the complex, the old and the new, the foreign and the domestic, the tragic and the funny, even the good and the bad as we define them for ourselves.