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"How to Raise a Reader"
by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo
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Is there a book that turned you into a dedicated, even adventurous reader? Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the co-author, along with Maria Russo, of a book titled, “How to Raise a Reader.”
Paul says parents can be the counterweight for all of the required reading kids must do in school. The key is to make reading a treat, a reward, even a naughty act.
Here’s a few ways to do it: Do your kids beg to stay up past bedtime? Tell them they get an extra half hour if they want to read under the covers. If they don’t want to keep reading, it’s lights out at the regular time.
Do your kids see you reading? Paul is a big believer in modeling reading. So am I. I still have an image of my mother, curled up in a gold chair in our western New York living room reading late into the night.
Share some of the books you loved with your sons and daughters and tell them a vivid story about the experience of reading those books when you were a kid.
And here’s something I can’t emphasize enough: Make reading subversive. Tell your kids they can read (almost) anything they can find in the library. When my choices raised eyebrows at our small town library, my mother told the librarian I could choose anything I wanted.
Was I reading some dicey stuff at times? Sure. But I also read the “Little House on the Prairie” books, “Jane Eyre” and lots of biographies of famous women.
Paul adds: “Really want your child to hunker down and read one book in particular? Tell her she can’t. She’s not ready yet. That it’s too old for her, too difficult, too dark and entirely inappropriate for children. Put it up on a high shelf and walk away. You may never see it again.”
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MPR and the Star Tribune are proud to announce the 20th season of Talking Volumes. This season will feature interviews with Alice Hoffman, Saeed Jones, Tim O’Brien, Karen Armstrong, Lindy West and Tracy K. Smith.
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Bookseller Adah Fitzgeral recommends a novel that’s about “finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.” It revolves around a small town near the coast in North Carolina, and a woman who lives life very much her own way.
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