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The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1982, The New Read-Aloud Handbook, 1989,The Read-Aloud Handbook, Sixth Edition, 2006. Reading Aloud: Motivating Children to Make Books Into Friends, Not Enemies (film), 1983. Turning On the Turned Off Reader (audio cassette), 1983. (Editor) Hey! Listen to This: Stories to Read Aloud, 1992. (Editor) Read all About It!:
The E. B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E. B. White. In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories:
Reviews of the books are generally positive, highlighting the adventurous tales and descriptive language. [11] [12] One review notes that readers searching for true depictions of Latinos are best served elsewhere. [12] In 2004, Skippyjon Jones won the first annual E. B. White Read Aloud Award, handed out by The Association of Booksellers for ...
The show carefully chooses books from a pool of around 500 submissions per series, which come from various publishers across the UK. The selection process is based on straightforward criteria: the books must be genuinely enjoyable to be read aloud and shared by both children and adults.
The Titan's Curse was published by Miramax Books, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children, [1] and thus Disney Publishing (succeeded by the Disney Hyperion imprint). It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom on May 1, 2007. [2] The novel was also released in audiobook format, read by Jesse Bernstein. [4] [5]
The first official Hellfire Club was founded in London in 1718, by Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton and a handful of other high-society friends. The most notorious club associated with the name was established in England by Francis Dashwood, [ 5 ] and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.
When analyzing the wording of several Dr. Seuss books, communications professor Lois Einhorn determined that 72% of its words in I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! have positive connotations and 28% have negative connotations. This was a higher proportion of positive words than most of the other Dr. Seuss books she analyzed.
Cass: Cassandra, or "Cass" for short, is the main protagonist of all the books. A smart, sarcastic, 12-year-old adopted girl (as discovered in the second book, If You're Reading This, It's Too Late), Cass embarks on adventures with Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji to stop the Midnight Sun and its sinister plans to achieve immortality. She is descended ...