How to Get Your Child to Love ReadingEsmé Raji CodellLabel: Algonquin BooksDescription: An exuberant treasure trove for parents.—Publishers WeeklyAre 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. Esmé 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.
