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David Stanley Ford

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.

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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.

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    David Stanley Ford


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