How to Get Your Child to Love Reading (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781565123083)

"An exuberant treasure trove for parents."

--Publishers Weekly

Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on.

Esm Raji Codell--an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher--has the solution. She's turned her years of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help parents get their kids excited about reading.

Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through eighth grade.

This five-hundred-page volume is brimming with themes for superlative storytimes and book-based birthday parties, ideas for mad-scientist experiments and half-pint cooking adventures, stories for reluctant readers and book groups for boys, step-by-step instructions for book parades, book-related crafts, storytelling festivals, literature-based radio broadcasts, readers' theater, and more. There are book lists galore, with subject-driven reading recommendations for science, math, cooking, nature, adventure, music, weather, gardening, sports, mythology, poetry, history, biography, fiction, and fairy tales. Codell's creative thinking and infectious enthusiasm will empower even the busiest parents and children to include literature in their lives.

Author: Esmé Raji Codell
ISBN-10: 1565123085
ISBN-13: 9781565123083
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2003
Pages: 531
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.10w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2003 pg. 70
BookPage 08/01/2003 pg. 27
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2003 pg. 132