nina_rod 's review for:

The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease

5.0

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This book is my favorite baby shower gift to new parents. I have devoured editions five and six and turn to it periodically for motivation to continue my read alouds and for book suggestions. I didn't think the newest edition would have anything new to add, but I was wrong. Trelease goes into very timely issues of our day like smart phones, texting and ebooks and their affects on children. Favorite quotes: " "...if publishers put enough sound and video into ebooks, converting them from books to products. The danger for the ebook as product is that it will fall prey to the temptations that twisted television." Trelease also devotes several pages to admonish fathers for taking their sons to baseball games, but not to libraries or bookstores.