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  How to Get Your Child to Love Reading: For Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike

  by Esme? Raji Codell

  Are 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 Codell-an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher-has the solution. She's turned her years of... (more)
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  Honey for a Child's Heart

  by Gladys M. Hunt

  Everything you need from how to choose good books for your children to encouraging them to be avid readers, this fourth edition also includes an indexed and updated list of the best children’s classics ever.
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  Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women

  by Kathleen Odean

  A unique guide for parents and teachers contains more than six hundred annotated listings of a variety of books for girls, from toddlers to adolescents, that feature female protagonists who solve problems and shape their own destiny.
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  The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook)

  by Jim Trelease

  For more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease’s beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes... (more)
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  The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children: 3rd Edition Revised and Updated (New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children)

  by Eden Ross Lipson

  The Classic Guide That Helps You Select the Books the Child You Know Will Love In this third, fully revised and updated edition of The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children , the children's book editor of The New York Times Book Review personally selects and recommends books for children of every age. The most comprehensive and authoritative book of its kind has been completely updated... (more)
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  For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School (Child-Life Book)

  by Susan S. MacAulay, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

  For the Children's Sake is a book about what education can be--for your child, in your home, and in your school. It is based first on a Christian understanding of what it means to be human and on the Christian meaning of life.
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  Great Books for Babies and Toddlers: More Than 500 Recommended Books for Your Child's First Three Years

  by Kathleen Odean

  “The ideal time to begin sharing books with children is during babyhood, even with children as young as six weeks.” —Starting Out Right National Research Council All parents hope to give their children the best possible start in life. Many of them know it’s a good idea to read to their children at a very young age, not with the goal of teaching their kids to read, but with the joy of having special time... (more)
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  Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children's Literature

  by Elizabeth Laraway Wilson

  A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds to new truths and knowledge in appealing, inspiring ways. But how can we sort through thousands of children's books to discover the really worthwhile ones? Elizabeth Wilson offers us a newly revised, comprehensive guide to the... (more)
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  Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader

  by Laura Backes

  Get Your Child Hooked on Books! Reading can become a favorite part of any child's life—even children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluctant reader on the path to becoming an enthusiastic reader. Inside are 125 books that are certain to ignite your child's interest in reading. You'll find a variety of titles with real kid appeal—the best of the... (more)
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  The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them

  by Janet Kay Jensen, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger

  THE BOOK LOVER’S COOKBOOK Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature Them Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen Wake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalby’s Buttermilk Scones, courtesy of James Herriot’s All Things Bright and Beautiful and Ichabod’s Slapjacks, as featured in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow . There’s homey comfort food like... (more)
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  The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach: Bible Based Homeschooling

  by Robin Sampson

  Created for all homeschoolers that want to make the Bible the center of their school day. The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach is a combination of several popular homeschool methods: Hebrew education methods, Charlotte Mason, delight directed, thematic unit studies, lifestyle of learning, learning styles, writing to learn and notebooking. Sampson provides you with the methods, program, and resources for a... (more)
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  Great Books About Things Kids Love: More Than 750 Recommended Books for Children 3 to 14

  by Kathleen Odean

  BOOKS THAT TURN CHILDREN INTO LIFE-LONG READERS! Most children want to read a book because it's about something they love or are curious about--dinosaurs, magic tricks, ballerinas, sports, secret codes, and a host of other topics. Now with this unique book, Kathleen Odean, current chair of the Newberry Award committee and author of Great Books for Girls and Great Books for Boys, makes it easy for parents and... (more)