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Browder, Rusty – Horn Book Magazine, 1981
A proprietor of a children's bookshop describes the unique characteristics paperbacks possess for motivating children's interest in reading. (MKM)
Descriptors: Books, Children, Childrens Literature, Motivation Techniques
Chambers, Aidan – Horn Book Magazine, 1981
Describes how a love of reading paperbacks led to a love of literature and makes a plea for quality children's paperback books. (MKM)
Descriptors: Books, Children, Childrens Literature, Literature Appreciation
Chambers, Aidan – Horn Book Magazine, 1980
Relates experiences encountered by the author in going into schools to talk to children about children's books he has written. Discusses children's responses to literature, the need to attend carefully to what children say when they talk about their reading, and classroom activities that encourage an enjoyment of literature. (GT)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
Hale, Robert D. – Horn Book Magazine, 1987
Recounts the experiences of a bookseller in dealing with children's books, including what strategies increase sales, how mothers and fathers choose children's books differently, and giving book talks at parents' nights at preschool schools. (NKA)
Descriptors: Books, Bookstores, Childrens Literature, Merchandising
Lester, Julius – Horn Book Magazine, 1984
An author and teacher offers a memoir of his experiences with reading and writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Early Experience, Literature Appreciation
Heins, Ethel L. – Horn Book Magazine, 1980
Discusses the importance of parents' reading attitudes and habits in promoting reading in children, defends the quality of current children's books, and tells how Dorothy Butler's "Cushla and Her Books," a book about the rehabilitation of a disabled child, establishes unequivocally the need for "human links" between children…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Durell, Ann – Horn Book Magazine, 1979
Notes certain disquieting trends that affect the publication and the reading of children's books; discusses a number of reasons why children read, including for information, to please adults, for instant gratification, for illumination of self, for escape, and for reassurance and deep satisfaction of a vicarious triumph. (GT)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Appreciation
