September 08, 2005

Celebrating International Literacy Day

How to Read (for Children and Adults) and How to Enjoy Reading

The ABC's and All Their Tricks by Margaret M. Bishop

McGuffey's Eclectic Readers by William Holmes McGuffey

Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It by Rudolf Flesch; recommended by Flesch, and still available secondhand, is the old textbook Reading with Phonics by Julie Hay and Charles E. Wingo [I'm using this as a supplement with Daniel to great success; I found mine on eBay]

The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Reading by Jessie Wise, co-author of The Well-Trained Mind. The WTM website also has a number articles on reading; "Games to Play with Phonics"; "Teaching Reading: Phonics Programs That Work"; "Why Whole Language Seems to Work for Some Children"; "Our Favorite Books by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer"; and "Our Readers' Favorite Books"

The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease

Educating Esmé by Esmé Raji Codell; she has a nifty children's literature website, too, Planet Esmé

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading: For Ravenous and Reluctant Readers Alike by Esmé Raji Codell

How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer

Something Old

The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages

Loganberry Books' Stump the Bookseller

The Little Bookroom: Eleanor Farjeon's Short Stories for Children Chosen by Herself by Eleanor Farjeon and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone

Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White

Clementine in the Kitchen by Samuel Chamberlain

The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts by William Rose Benet; my old edition was published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1948. As handy as a dictionary by a reader's elbow, especially with little ones asking all the questions they do.

Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart; I knew my edition was old (1941) but I didn't realize it was a first edition until I checked for this blog entry. Makes me like it even better lol.

Something New

Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs, the latest in pop-up wizardry from Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart

Powell's Books Newsletter

Bears by Ruth Krauss, newly illustrated by Maurice Sendak

D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, the new NYRB reprint of D'Aulaires' Norse Gods & Giants

Strange Affair by Peter Robinson

Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues by Dave Bidini, guitarist for the Rheostatics; new in paperback for late-summer jaunts

The Story of Science: Newton at the Center by Joy Hakim, to be published in September 2005

Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language by Sister Miriam Joseph, publication date approx. November 2005

S is for Silence by Sue Grafton, publication approx. December 2005

Something Borrowed

Quotations about libraries and librarians

Access to the New York Public Library for non-New Yorkers: for Readers & Writers; for Children

The Library of Congress

Burnaby, B.C. Public Library Children's Literature Page, with lots of links

The Library by Sarah Stewart and illustrated by David Small

When I Went to the Library: Writers Celebrate Books and Reading by Deborah Pearson

Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller

All-of-a-Kind-Family by Sydney Taylor

Reading Rooms edited by John Coughlan and Susan Allen Toth

Free printable bookplates from Anne Fine's nifty website

A Passion for Books : A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books by Harold Rabinowitz

Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy by Nicholas A. Basbanes; and just for fun, here are the real Patience and Fortitude and also Nicholas Basbane's website

The Librarian of Basra written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter

Something Blue

Peter in Blueberry Land by Elsa Beskow

Pelle's New Suit by Elsa Beskow

Uncle Blue's New Boat by Elsa Beskow

Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure by Joseph Wechsberg

Book Lists

The New York Review of Books Children's Collection

1,000 Good Books List for Children, arranged by reading levels (K-12) and by author, from the Classical Christian Education Support Loop; not entirely secular but great good stuff

Searchable Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature

Caldecott Medal & Honor books, 1938-Present, awarded to the artists of the most distinguished American picture book

Newbery Medal & Honor books, 1922-Present, awarded to the authors of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children

The Good Books list, from The Great Books Academy

The Baldwin Project: Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children

The Well-Trained Mind K-4 Reading List

The Well-Trained Mind High School Reading List

Junior Great Books/Readalouds (from Mortimer Adler's Great Books Foundation)

Junior Great Books, Grades K-8 (from Mortimer Adler's Great Books Foundation)

The Great Books; also GBF's/Penguin Book's free online discussion guides for various classics

Miscellaneous "Great Books" sites and lists

Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitallly Re-Published

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online

Banned Books Online

Reading List for the College Bound, compiled by the Center for Applied Research in Education and online courtesy of St. Margaret's School, Tappahannock, VA; for more, get this from your library

Five in a Row's Book Lists

Online version of Clifton Fadiman's New Lifetime Reading Plan (4th edition)

A state-by-state book list for children (not comprehensive but still some good things and a dandy idea); this is one of the only times you'll find a link on this blog to anything at the NEA's website, so enjoy it...

Reading with your eyes closed (or while you're driving) (but not both at the same time, please)

Poetry Speaks edited by Elise Paschen

Storyteller Jim Weiss's audio books/Greathall Productions

Odds Bodkins, another storyteller


And finally, for Grandpapa,
In honor of the Rev. James Granger

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Don't forget Part 2 of Celebrating International Literacy Day over here, with quotes about books, reading, libraries, and librarians.

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