What's the one book that finally got your child (or you!) hooked on reading?

Share your "gateway book" in the comments below! 👇

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🤓A bit of bookish wisdom from the incomparable Lou Alcott:

"Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort."
-Louisa May Alcott

🎥: MidJourney
🎙️: ElevenLabs

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Color photo: Old illustrated page showing animals and the sounds they make (the serpent hisseth, the chicken peepeth, etc). Left: drawings of animals like cat, dog, and owl. Center: Latin phrases with English translations. Right: letters N-Z. 📸: John Comenius

John Comenius, a 17th-century Czech philosopher, championed the revolutionary idea that people learn via their senses, paving the way for more inclusive and effective teaching methods for young people.
📸: John Comenius

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Color illustration: a three figure sketch of Poot, a green sentient alien blob from the "My Teacher is an Alien" series by Bruce Coville. The top figure is Poot, arranged in a sluglike formation, asking the question "Poot?". The middle figure is Poot, still sluglike, eagerly saying "Poot!". The bottom figure is Poot emerging from his square container. His front end is decidedly sluglike, but 90% of his body is still filling his container like sourdough in tupperware. 📸: Victoria Taylor

Yours truly was outright thrilled to see Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is An Alien" series show up a handful of times in the comments. Wonderful writing, big ideas, and SPACE TRAVEL! Plus a happy little blob named Poot.*
📸: Victoria Taylor

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"In terms of child literacy rates going down, that was really what ‘Reading Rainbow’ was designed in response to, and in particular the ‘summer slide,’ they call it, which is when students are out of school, their literacy levels slide backward."

#readearly #LeVarBurton
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For your Civil Rights and Social Justice toolkits, an alphabetized collection of bespoke reading lists for young readers from Activism to Zinn! 💪

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"One instructor observed that Brown seemed fixated on 'words and language,' as if she were more of a poet than a teacher. Another noted, 'Much of the time Miss Brown seems to be in a day-dream.'"

#literacy #readearly #readaloud #readeverything

From ⁦‪Vancouver Island Regional Library‬⁩ #Gabriola Island
#Gsky #Nanaimo #Library #ReadEarly

Color drawing of a little girl with brown skin standing on a stack of hardback books and reading aloud to a crowd of onlooking kids. Source caption reads: "Image: An excerpt from Peter H. Reynolds’ artwork for Scholastic on World Read Aloud Day"

"To recite poetry is to discover (as students) or rediscover (as educators) the ability of poets to speak down through the generations, using us as mouthpieces."

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📸: Peter H. Reynolds
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𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 & 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 & 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲
Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter
https://bit.ly/3xHa62K

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