Reading for the Love of It: Best Books for Young Readers
by Michele Landsberg
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Offers advice for parents on selecting children's books and recommends more than 400 outstanding books.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1986
- Epigraph
- The moving accident is not my trade;
To freeze the blood I have no ready arts:
'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade,
To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
--William Wordsworth, "Hart-Leap Well," 1800 - Dedication
- For Stephen, my partner in all things that matter most, including the pleasures of children's literature
- First words
- Introduction: Into the narrow, quiet, regular life of a child growing up in Toronto in the 1940s - the overgrown backyard, the alleyway where I bounced my ball against the side of the house, the bus trips to piano lessons - ... (show all)suddenly thee thundered a huge caravan of exotic warriors, heroines, and horses, swords flashing, animals bellowing, clouds of dust and incense, the blare of horns calling me to adventure.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)This magnificent, powerfully imagined trilogy (the second book, The Tombs of Atuan, deals with the emergence to womanhood of a young captive priestess) is more sensitive, intense, and original - and certainly more egalitarian - than The Lord of the Rings, and its prose is at once more muscular and polished.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 011.62 — Computer science, information & general works Bibliographies (books containing lists of books) Bibliographies by Authors Books for Children
- LCC
- Z1037 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources General bibliography Books for special classes of persons, institutions, etc.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
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