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  1. What an awesome group of teens! Sounds like you all had a lot of fun. Cookies, Colin Firth and his unmentionables – what more could a Janeite want during the Christmas holidays?

  2. I agree wholeheartedly with what Anji said! What more could any of us want!!!
    Great idea to host it ,thus providing you an ideal opportunity to light the flame of enthusiasm for all things Austen!! We are not alone!!!

  3. I third Anji and second Mary. I love If You Give A Mous A Cookie. I read that and it’s variations to my preK class quite often.

  4. Once the teenagers move on to graduate, the Janeite might well want to advertise her services to the AP English teacher so more students could have such an affirmative introduction to Jane Austen. Your cats will love it!

  5. Cookies, cats, and Colin. Love to cuddle with my cats, but cuddling with Colin, wet shirt or not, sounds so much better. What more is there? Great group of kids.

  6. What fun!! Our middle son, who graduated high school in 2015, once told a friend of his that I “inflicted Austen” upon him.

    Poor child.

    I also regularly inflict Shakespeare, Dickens, and other classic novels upon my children. Of course, this is the same child who quoted from Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing while still in a toddler seat…at the table with our pastor and his wife as guests, exclaiming with arms open wide, “The world must be peopled!” Our guests were laughing so hard once I explained…. 😉

    Thanks, Maria!!

    Warmly,
    Susanne 🙂

  7. Love the prose. My grandchildren are all 4 or under so I have been giving them the children’s classic editions. I am hoping one of them comes to love JA as I do. I was introduced to Jane Eyre in seventh grade and didn’t read any JA until the 1995 movie was released in parts on TV. Then I had to read the book. Hope the young gentlemen learned something from the movie. Thanks for sharing.

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