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The dead bird by margaret wise brown6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Based on her interests, she might be a little Edgar Allan Poe fan in the making. Now that I have a daughter of my own, I’ve been filling our shelves with children’s books that embrace a little horror. But not for a little girl that carried literal piles of Goosebumps and Fear Street books in her backpack every day, in case there was some free reading time, and who founded a ghost story club during recess. While I know I read many of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories in elementary school, these are the only two tales where I have visceral memories attached to them. Was this before or after the TPAC performance? Was it an assigned reading, or my choice? I can no longer answer these questions, though once more, Edgar Allan Poe seems like an odd choice for elementary school. Goosebumps on my arms once again, as a good Poe story will always do. The moist darkness that enveloped Fortunato as each brick was laid juxtaposed with the brightness of the classroom’s fluorescent lighting. ![]() ![]() I also remember sitting in my elementary school classroom and reading “The Cask of Amontillado” for the first time. ![]()
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