Posted by Unknown | 4:27 AM

For a long time we've known that girls make a faster start in reading in the early years. In the last 2-3 decades the gap between the ...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:59 AM

  There was a time when everyone read short stories. While school primers and reading resources still make good use of collections of storie...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:47 PM

I've written before about the importance of books that encourage children to make and do things. This is a revised version of a post I w...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:54 AM

* This is a revised version of a post I wrote in 2011 I'm asked by many parents just when they should start reading chapter books to th...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:46 AM

'Science and technology' is an important book category for children interested in understanding the natural and man-made world. In ...

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