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A Family of Readers: A Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
"Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at the center of a closed circle - that of mother's body, arms, and the picture book... That circle, so private and intimate, is a place apart form the demands and stresses of daily life, a sanctuary in and from which the child can explore the many worlds offered in picture books. Despite all of our society's technological advances, it still just takes one child, one book, and one reader, to create this unique space, to work this everyday magic."
— Martha Parravano (Editor)
— Martha Parravano (Editor)
The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease:
"Seeing as how the teacher had had each child for less than 700 hours and the parent(s) had had the child for 52,000 hours, his entire six-year-old life, which "teacher" do you think is responsible for the child being unprepared [for first grade]?"
"Avoid compulsion and let early eduction be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul." Plato
"If children's entertainment is purged of the powerful, we risk homogenization, predictability, and boredom, and we deprive our children of any real understand of the cathartic and emotional potentials of narrative ... And when we talk about children made sad by a movie, we are talking about children being moved by things that are no really happening to real people, and this is what art and drama and literature are all about. Those children are recognizing a character and feeling for that character, and that is a giant step toward empathy." Dr. Perri Klass
"A parent can read-aloud to challenge a child's mind and take car of his emotional needs in other ways. But classroom teachers are limited in the ways they can reach and touch children. Education critics who say teachers should restrict themselves to teaching only the basic learning skills and curriculum are profession their ignorance of life beyond their narrow neighborhood. Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of something more than reading and math skills. They come to school looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego. We fail to help them with the daily curriculum often enough that one thousand teenagers attempt suicide every day, and one succeeds every ninety minutes. Bebliotherapy can be extremely effective."
The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn
"One of the many challenges for a teacher is to help spark and sustain children's intrinsic motivation to play with words and numbers and ideas."
