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.
While this "guide” is wonderful for parents, I am frustrated by the fact that librarians are mentioned twice and libraries only a handful more as a place to visit and a library card as a milestone. This would have been a lovely chance for the publishing/editors and library worlds to collaborate. Once again, the reviewers refer to the ALA’s awards as the gold standard for books, but we are a mere side note in the actual fostering of readers. This would have been a great chance to highlight the wonderful work of school librarians and how hard we work to foster the love of reading in all of our students. Raising readers is a community business and should be the goal of all adults in a child’s life.
Also this: When you purchase a recommended book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
You’ll never find a librarian/library recommended reading list pushing books for commission no matter how good they happen to be.
ALSO ALSO- Never say research shows without backing it up with the actual research. You are a news organization. Provide facts and proof please.
And yes, I took the survey in the guide to tell them this as well.
