It’s been a scary (Discover Channel hostage crisis), tumultuous (NJ Housewives Reunion) and foreboding (Earl) week in TV and the news. Your family might just opt for a first-rate reading weekend. After all, you hope to instill within your child a rich appreciation of books based on your own love of literature, and not just as a means to increase their test scores.
If you do not have a thorough knowledge of children’s books, two of the most trusted reviewers in the field bring you A Family of Readers: The Book Lover’s Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Roger Sutton and Martha V. Parravano are the editors of The Horn Book Magazine and their new book is meant to help sharpen your own sense of what makes books work with young people.
A Family of Readers is broken down in four parts:
1. Reading to Them: Choosing and sharing board books and picture books with babies and very young children.
2. Reading with Them: Launching the new reader with easy readers and chapter books.
3. Reading on Their Own: Exploring what children read—and how they read—by genre and gender.
4. Leaving Them Alone: Respecting the reading privacy of the young adult.
Artists, authors, reviewers and designers including Maurice Sendak, Lois Lowry, and Kevin Henkes contribute their views and experiences. Each chapter ends with a selection of recent recommended books of the relevant genre and an entire list of all books discussed can be found in the back of the book.
“Why do kids read? They read because they are made to, of course, but they also read - via media in a multitude of forms - because they want to find something out, or they want to join their imagination with somebody else’s” - Roger Sutton
Pre-order your copy today at Amazon.com – Available in bookstores September 28, 2010.
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