How to Grow a Young Reader: Books from Every Age for Readers of Every Age - Softcover

Lindskoog, Kathryn; Hunsicker, Ranelda Mack

 
9780877884088: How to Grow a Young Reader: Books from Every Age for Readers of Every Age
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0877884080 ISBN 13: 9780877884088
Publisher: PRH Christian Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

In an age of electronic games, TV, videos, and the Internet . . . You can raise a book lover. Reading opens up a lifetime of learning and delight to children. In How to Grow a Young Reader, Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker offer suggestions for creating a reader-friendly home, truths about how literature strengthens character development, and helpful strategies for nurturing a love of reading in any child. Includes a helpful guide to over 1,800 books.

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About the Authors

Kathryn Lindskoog plunged into an independent academic-honors project on C. S. Lewis in 1954, met him in 1956, & has been writing & teaching about him ever since. Although crippled with progressive multiple sclerosis, she has taught literature courses at several colleges as well as New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary & Fuller Seminary. Lewis originally opened the door to George MacDonald & Dante for her, & that has now led to this extraordinary array of discoveries about all three.

Kathryn Lindskoog is a prolific writer, teacher, and literary critic. She is probably best known for her book "C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian," an examination of the work of Lewis, who wrote to her, "You know my work better than anyone else I've met: certainly better than I do myself." Among her twenty-one other books are "Creative Writing for People Who Can't Not Write" and the three-volume "Dante's Divine Comedy: Journey to Joy. "The mother of two grown children, she lives in California with her husband. Ranelda Mack Hunsicker, a former elementary and high school teacher, is now a freelance

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In an age of electronic games, TV, videos, and the Internet...You can raise a book lover.
Reading opens up a lifetime of learning and delight to children. In "How to Grow a Young Reader, Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker offer suggestions for creating a reader-friendly home, truths about how literature strengthens character development, and helpful strategies for nurturing a love of reading in any child.
Includes a helpful guide to over 1,800 books.

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age of electronic games, TV, videos, and the Internet You can raise a book lover.

Reading opens up a lifetime of learning and delight to children. In How to Grow a Young Reader, Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker offer suggestions for creating a reader-friendly home, truths about how literature strengthens character development, and helpful strategies for nurturing a love of reading in any child.

Includes a helpful guide to over 1,800 books.

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Publisher
PRH Christian Publishing
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0877884080
ISBN 13 
9780877884088
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352

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