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How to Raise a Reader
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How to Raise a Reader Hardcover - 2019

by Pamela Paul,Maria Russo

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  • Hardcover

A parent's guide to raising a lifelong reader, packed with practical ideas for engaging children of all ages in books, plus wonderful lists of books, arranged by age and subject matter, will keep the shelves stocked and young readers' interests high from birth through teens.

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Workman Publishing Company, September 2019. Hardcover. Used - Very Good.
Used - Very Good
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  • Title How to Raise a Reader
  • Author Pamela Paul,Maria Russo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Workman Publishing Company
  • Date September 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 212777
  • ISBN 9781523505302 / 1523505303
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.5 x 0.8 in (21.59 x 16.51 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Child rearing, Children - Books and reading
  • Dewey Decimal Code 649.58

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Citations

  • Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2019, Page 130
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2019, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2019, Page 76
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/15/2019, Page 0

About the author

Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York TimesBook Review and oversees books coverage at The New York Times, which she joined in 2011 as the children's books editor. She is also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast for the Times. She is the author and editor of five books: My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony, Pornified, Parenting, Inc., and By the Book. She is a former columnist for The Economist, Worth, and The New York Times Styles section. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, Vogue, Psychology Today, Brown Alumni Magazine, and other national publications. She lives with her husband and three children in New York.

Maria Russo is the children's books editor of The New York TimesBook Review. She has been a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, and Salon, and holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband and three children.