Two books I would highly recommend to parents of young children are from two of Australia’s most loved children’s authors, Mem Fox www.memfox.net and Paul Jennings www.pauljennings.com.au. These authors write just as engagingly for adults as they do for children, and their books on how to help our kids develop a love of reading are witty, insightful and very practical.
In The Reading Bug and how to help your child catch it, Paul Jennings provides a stack of practical advice to parents wanting to help their children learn to read. He has recently released a new edition with an extra chapter dedicated to boys (yay!) and an updated list of recommended reads.
“If you are a parent you already have the major ingredient to infect a child with the reading bug — love. You love your kids and children love to be loved. Inject this into the reading situation and you will succeed.” Paul Jennings
In Reading Magic, Mem Fox humorously hammers home the importance of regularly reading aloud to our kids from birth. She covers what to read, when to read, and how to read. She suggests a nightly ritual of reading aloud to our children and includes specific tips on how to read expressively by varying our facial expressions and voice.
Jennings and Fox are two powerhouses in Australian children’s literature and in the teaching of reading. What they have to say is important, helpful and practical — minus the jargon.
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