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Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children’s Literature Overview
A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds to new truths and knowledge in appealing, inspiring ways. But how can we sort through thousands of children’s books to discover the really worthwhile ones?
Elizabeth Wilson offers us a newly revised, comprehensive guide to the very best in children’s literature. Just as in the original volume, she comments on the tone and content of excellently written, captivating books in over two dozen subject areas. Hundreds of new titles have been added while retaining timeless classics and modern favorites-all of which respect traditional values. So that no matter what the children’s ages are or whether they love fact or fiction, you can trust these books to share things that you can believe in and kids will delight in.
Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children’s Literature Review
Every parent should BEGIN their children’s library experience with this book! There are hundreds of thousands of titles for children’s books, and our children will only be able to read a limited number of these throughout their childhood years. So, don’t waste time on the losers in the bunch!
It is BEST to start with a PLAN for raising children, and add a tool, such as this book, which can assist us in guiding our children’s book choices!
Every home library should have this book from which to START the process of enriching children through literature. There is certainly plenty of twaddle to read out there which is of little or no value to our children… so why waste their time allowing them to wade through this twaddle and read it? This is often what kills a child’s desire to read.
Many books today are poorly written with confusing characters and lacking a protagonist. Many times there are no character building moral values imparted!
This little handbook is great for helping us (parents and teachers) ensure that the best of children’s literature is not left behind when our children are beginning their reading experiences.
This book will inform you about children’s books which you never knew existed. Most books assigned for our children to read are actually chosen by people who know next to nothing about the options in children’s literature.
I am reminded of the little book store owner in “You’ve Got Mail.” Kathleen “Shopgirl” Kelly (played by Meg Ryan) knows all of the wonderful, imaginative, classic children’s books for children to read; while Joe “NY152″ Fox (played by Tom Hanks just wants to build a conglomerate book store down the street and sell whatever his buyers stock in it. His staff knows no more about the books on the shelves than the shoppers!
Shopgirl knew all the best children’s literature and was able to guide her customers through the process of choosing rich reading… those titles that every child should read at least once (because of the quality of writing and storytelling), but will usually read another twenty times because of the richness of the story and the overall experience with which the child is left!
Choose books which have characters to aspire to, stories to imitate, life lessons to be learned, all while fertilizing the seeds of each child’s natural imagination!
Yanisa