North Flame

Reading is all about brain. The gift of READING is like the gift of HAPPINESS – we can’t tell a child to BE HAPPY. It has to happen intrinsically. We do this by playing in the phonological loop. It is here that we architect a child’s brain so that strong connections are made with white matter neuronal structures that foster a capacity to manipulate concepts and think abstractly. <title>North Flame</title> is a magic journey into imagination – a world where when the book stops the brain continues. DO NOT BE SURPISED when your child will come back a week later and announce that they finally know what the meaning of the journey was. It is a fable in the classic sense, welcoming children into a world of mystery and color with its timeless wisdom, innocence, and spare beauty.

An outstanding post modernist poet and former newsman who was a foreign correspondent, GOODWIN was educated at Yale and Georgetown Universities. Goodwin lives and writes in Boston. <P>LISA SCHOFIELD is a young artist and illustrator living in Worcester, Massachusetts. This is her first book.