Find Your Neverland
“What is Dinotopia? And what’s like Dinotopia, Kate??”
“The girl in the book, like when she escapes to her own
world. It’s like Dinotopia. Dinotopia is the place where my friend
and I go. We can do anything we
want in Dinotopia. When we miss
someone or if we want to see someone we can’t really see, we go to
Dinotopia. We know it’s not real,
but it is where we go. Like I
don’t get to see my grandpa a lot.
So I can go to Dinotopia to see him.
Or like yesterday I got to hang out with George Washington but he got
mad at me because I forgot to bring the peanut butter sandwiches. And sometimes I just go to see
things. Like the butterflies that
are as big as trees and when they fly by you, you can feel the wind from their
wings swing around you.”
That. That right there is
what books do. They ignite and
explode the imagination. This
little girl, who revealed her own version of Neverland in my after school book
club, had her imagination sparked by a new character we were reading
about. And I knew exactly what she
was talking about. Because I have a Neverland of my own.
Just a friendly reminder to keep reading...it opens up worlds.
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