#raise a reader

[accordingtojefferson]

“I can’t wait for Percy to go YEET YEET YEET YEET and kill Kronos”

[laura-fuchs]

107-year old metropolitan crocodile Gaspard Amundsen in his cosy home library drinking nettle tea.

From my picturebook “The marvelous journey of Gaspard Amundsen” (Original german title “Die fabelhafte Reise des Gaspard Amundsen”)

Watercolour on paper, 40 x 30 cm

[accordingtojefferson]

Mom, go get your book. Then we can be reading twins!

[laura-fuchs]

In july 2016 my first picturebook was published by german publisher Thienemann-Esslinger.

It is called “The marvellous journey of Gaspard Amundsen” and tells the story of the 107-year old metropolitan crocodile Gaspard Amundsen who sets off for an adventureous journey around the world.

[pgcclibrary]

How to Raise a Reader

The benefits of reading at every stage of a child’s development are well documented. Happily, raising a reader is fun, rewarding and relatively easy.

From the moment you’re expecting your first child, you are bombarded with messages about the importance of reading. For good reason: The benefits of reading at every stage of a child’s development are well documented. Happily, raising a reader is fun, rewarding and relatively easy.

[nikkiagain]

The stack of books by Ryland's knee are the ones he had "read" by the time I was up and dressed. He said he was going to "read and read till the stack's to the ceiling." Definitely his mother's son.

[intothestacks]

For some reason boys tend to like reading manuals. Grownups say that those don't count as "real" reading, but there's no reason it shouldn't. They're reading. That's what matters.

My Children’s Literature professor

I don’t get it either. You want them to read. They’re reading. They could sit there and read the phone book for all I care. 

You have to get them in the habit of reading for pleasure before pushing stuff at them, otherwise they learn that reading is a chore rather than a pastime. 

[todayabook]

Many New Year's resolutions focus on developing healthy habits. Here's one that is important to make and keep: provide a regular diet of books and reading for your preschooler. You feed and care for your child every day so that he will grow into a healthy, happy preschooler. Similarly, you also need to provide experiences that will enhance language development and stimulate learning skills. Try this menu of reading activities: