Finding a Book
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Try these links.
Amazon.com (Even though their main purpose is selling books, they have great suggestions too.)
Award Winning Books
Caldecott books (children's book illustrator)
Newberry books (children's fiction)
Orbis Pictus books (children's non-fiction)
How to Choose a Just Right Book
It's interesting; you like it.
The title is appealing.
You know and like the author.
You are comfortable reading it!
The print is the right size.
You like the illustrations.
Some places are smooth; some are choppy. You can read it!
You understand the plot and can predict.
You can tell others what it is about.
There are only a few words per page you don't know.
where do you like to read?
where do you like to read?
I love to read any place, but I have done a lot of reading in my blue rocking chair. When my daughters were little, my husband and I read lots of books to them in that rocking chair. Sometimes my husband would fall asleep in the middle of the book and the girls would wake him so they could hear the end of the story. When Hannah and Katie were in second and third grade, I read Lord of the Rings, my favorite book, to them. (It's even better than the movies!) After the girls went to bed, I had a hard time putting it down (even though I'd already read it four times) and kept reading it. Then I'd read that part aloud the next night from the rocking chair for the girls. The rocking chair is still everyone's favorite reading spot.
This is the blue chair 24 years ago.
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