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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