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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
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
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...
by Joe Queenan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books
Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an...
by Robert Kanigel
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1998
Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to classics,...
The Year of Reading Dangerously
How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books.
Nearing his fortieth birthday, author and...
A Passion for Books
A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting , Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity.
Booklovers will find themselves in good...
The Joy of Reading
A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible." -Mortimer J. Adler
This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th century...
The Reading Group Insider
Book Club "Buzz Books," Resources, and Ideas for Great Reading and Meeting
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The Reading Group Insider is a valuable resource for everything you need to know about reading groups.
If you are looking for ideas to enhance your current group's experiences, interested in joining a reading group, or starting one of your own, the suggestions within The Reading Group Insider...
I'd Rather Be Reading
The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.
I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect...
A Family of Readers
The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in a definitive guide to choosing books for children—and nurturing their love of reading.
A FAMILY OF READERS is the definitive resource for parents interested in enriching the reading lives of...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
The History and Future of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us:...
by Emily J. M. Knox
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States...
by Alan Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America....
by Edel Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together the fields of childhood studies,...
by Joseph Pappa
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone's actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of an "ideal reader" approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning, this theoretical model...