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From: Steven Engelfried <sengelfried>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
My 16 year old daughter is reading nonfiction picture books a lot lately. We're very "relaxed" in our approach to her home schooling...she follows her interests and we don't stick to a curriculum. She reads a ton, though, and with nonfiction picture books she can get a good introduction to a topic she might not be familiar with yet. I don't know that she would have been motivated to read a longer book about the sphinx, but Giblin's "Story of the Sphinx" was just right. "A Cod's Tail" covered a topic she's interested in, but from a different viewpoint than she's usually exposed to. And picture book biographies (by Demi, Diane Stanley, and others) have introduced to her to many people she would not have read about otherwise. She reads longer nonfiction too, but picturebooks really adds to the breadth of her knowledge. There's nothing about the writing that feels younger in most of these...there's just less of it, plus pictures!
Steven Engelfried Multnomah County Library 205 NE Russell Street Portland, OR 97212-3796 503-988-5206 stevene at yahoo.com
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Received on Tue 19 Sep 2006 02:22:01 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
My 16 year old daughter is reading nonfiction picture books a lot lately. We're very "relaxed" in our approach to her home schooling...she follows her interests and we don't stick to a curriculum. She reads a ton, though, and with nonfiction picture books she can get a good introduction to a topic she might not be familiar with yet. I don't know that she would have been motivated to read a longer book about the sphinx, but Giblin's "Story of the Sphinx" was just right. "A Cod's Tail" covered a topic she's interested in, but from a different viewpoint than she's usually exposed to. And picture book biographies (by Demi, Diane Stanley, and others) have introduced to her to many people she would not have read about otherwise. She reads longer nonfiction too, but picturebooks really adds to the breadth of her knowledge. There's nothing about the writing that feels younger in most of these...there's just less of it, plus pictures!
Steven Engelfried Multnomah County Library 205 NE Russell Street Portland, OR 97212-3796 503-988-5206 stevene at yahoo.com
--------------------------------- Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business.
Received on Tue 19 Sep 2006 02:22:01 PM CDT
