Book week targets children
Book week targets children

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Published: May 12, 2008

Today marks the beginning of Children’s Book Week, a weeklong celebration of reading with children.

The event is sponsored by The Children’s Book Council, a nonprofit trade association of publishers and packagers of trade books for children and young adults.

Children’s author Terry Pierce, who releases “Blackberry Banquet” this month, offers these tips for using books to generate enjoyment, educational and memory-building experiences:

Talk about what you’ve read. Ask questions about it: Why do you think the author wrote this?

Bake what you’ve read about. Take a story such as “Blackberry Banquet” (Terry Pierce), “Burro’s Tortillas” (Terri Fields), “The Gingerbread Man” or “Pizza Party!” (Grace Maccarone) and do a follow-up cooking activity.

Draw artistic creativity from a book. Pull out the crayons, colored pencils, chalks and paints! You and your child can copy your favorite illustration from a story. How about designing a different book cover?

Springboard into writing. Help your child write a letter to a favorite author or illustrator, telling him what part of the story he or she liked the most. Help your child start a journal of her own, or write a diary entry for her favorite character.