Rollicking rhyme makes reading fun! #literacy #k12 #parenting

Kim Norman recalls a big-family childhood in Virginia, long vacations at Lake
Kezar in Maine, and a love of art which grew into a profession as a graphic
designer. But Norman reflects that her teachers talked more about her writing
than her art. From an early age Norman absorbed the sound and flow of language
through fairy tales, poetry, and the old Uncle Remus tales (despite their racial
overtones). “I loved the cadence of the language,” she says. “I used to have
dialogues in my head, conversations almost like a TV script, hearing two people
speak.” Norman knows now that her dialogues were all about the rhythm of the
words.
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