{"product_id":"how-to-get-your-child-to-love-reading-9781565123083","title":"How to Get Your Child to Love Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An exuberant treasure trove for parents.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAre 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Esm  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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Algonquin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781565123083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 7.10w x 1.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/19\/2003 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2003 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBulletin of Ctr for Child Bks\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2003 pg. 132\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Esm\u0026#233; Raji Codell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43103856591029,"sku":"9781565123083","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_489e0546-9535-4a09-8981-c5c3983f2a84.jpg?v=1693281403","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-to-get-your-child-to-love-reading-9781565123083","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}