Your Sure-Handed Guide
Through a World of Books for Children
Books and reading are an essential part of every child's development. But how can parents, educators and librarians choose the best books among the many thousands that compete for their attention? Here's how-- with a comprehensive, charming, common-sense guide from two leading experts on children and reading.
With wit, candor and boundless enthusiasm, Valerie V. Lewis and Walter M. Mayers select more than two thousand wonderful books for children from birth to age 14: from stories that babies can literally chew on, to the very best choices for bridging the critical gap between listening and reading, to the right books to tempt an adamant non-reader, and much more. Here is the most useful, candid, and convenient guide to children's literature ever published, featuring in-depth reviews, concise ratings, handy cross-references by theme and interest, a family reading journal, and mountains of essential hints and advice to help you pass along the gift of reading to the next generation:
- Matching the child to the book
- Using moments besides bedtime to incorporate reading
- Accepting books they will love to read and facing up to books they will hate
- Judging children's ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality
- Developing a child's attention span with books
- And much, much more.
The last word on children's reading.
The first book a parent should buy.
Valerie and Walter have been in the children's book industry for a combined thirty-five years and have worked with publishers, schools, libraries, medical professionals, corporations, parents, and children. They are lively, knowledgeable, motivational, and entertaining spokespersons for the joy of reading.