I am so grateful for the treasured titles my Matt, her youngest son, brought back to our family in Seattle these precious stories anchor our legacy family bookshelf and encouraged our own two children to love reading and reveling in the cleverness of language and the beauty of brilliant illustration. She raised seven children (first child born in 1949, last born in 1964) they were a bookish brood, and after she died, her surviving sons and daughters had the sorrowful, but I expect ultimately joyful, task of divvying up the many picture books accumulated in their home over the decades-long span of their childhood.
She was a brilliant, down-to-earth and fun-loving human being, and one of the greatest gifts she imparted to her children and grandchildren was a love of reading and languages (she was conversant in an over-achieving five herself, including de rigueur Catholic schoolgirl Latin). My family marks the anniversary of the passing of my mother-in-law each December.
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