Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #666634 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 32 pages

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-K-Bright, cheerful photographs of kids and adults reading together and separately-at home, at school, in the library, outside-serve as a printed pep rally to help children and their parents get excited about reading. The text, usually one line per page, points out that youngsters start building skills for reading throughout early childhood. Learning colors, shapes, letters, and symbols are the first steps in making sense of written language. The large, colorful photographs first show babies looking at board books. As the children become older, their confidence grows and the books they are interacting with mirror their development. Some of the photos move outside the home to a nursery school, a public library, and the outdoors. Learning is happening all the time as the text exults, "I can read anywhere!" The children in the photos are caught in natural activities, and none of the shots appear posed or stiff. The book concludes with a note to adults about the importance of reading with children and practical advice for including it in daily activities.
Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, St. Christopher's School, Richmond, VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
Using sharp, cheerful, full-color photographs of young people, from toddlers to teenagers, Senisi (Just Kids, 1998, etc.) illustrates her premise that ``Reading growsbit by bit.'' Included are pictograms everyone recognizes: deer crossing, wheelchair access. Colors are presented, then shapes, letters, words, signs, sentences. Throughout, children are read to, read to each other, or read by themselves, while books are everywhereon home shelves and library tables. The children and adults photographed are very real, and are delightfully varied in age, build, and ethnicity; few will be able to resist the tiny bespectacled blonde with chipped nail polish and a festoon of ribbons in her hair, the Latina toddler with the gold earrings, or the Hanson-handsome pre-teen. Senisi makes the act of learning to read as natural as the blossoming of a flower while acknowledging that it takes time and patience. A note for parents and caregivers offers concise instructions for turning children into readersa practical primer that concludes the book perfectly. (Picture book/nonfiction. 4-9) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Ingram
With beautiful full-color photos and easy, straightforward text, Ellen Senisi pays tribute to the process of reading and to the joy that reading success can bring. Full color.

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Pre-Readers
This fun, colorful book is a great way to introduce the conceptof reading to young children. It shows how reading starts withrecognizing colors, shapes, letters, and signs. After just a few weeks of reading this book to my nearly two-year-old daughter, she knew the colors, most of the shapes, and the signs. I also liked how it showed the shapes as everyday objects. It inspired us to begin looking for "shapes" around the house.