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On 10/21/98, Charles Ottosen wrote:
"She never tolerated the beginning readers, insisting instead on the 'regular' picture books we read to her all the time." This made me laugh and reminisce about our library trips when my son was small. Instead of toting hundreds of books home from the library,
we would spend whole days there reading. This way we could limit
our load to a
We were frequently the only people on the children's floor. It was like it was our own private library. I let him choose the books he wanted to read. Eric would find an author he liked and then read all his books. One day he picked up a book with wonderful illustrations.
We sat together on the floor and he began to read. After a few pages
he said,
I laughed, "It is a school reader." He said, "It is the same words over and over, and the story is awful." "You're right, and the kids at school might spend the whole year reading from this one book," I replied. He quietly looked at a few more pages. His tiny fingers turned to the back of the book. "It doesn't get any better," he said dismayed. "You're right again," I nodded. "You're lucky, because you'll never have to read those kinds of books." As he placed the book back on the shelf, I wondered how long it would take the authors, publisher, curriculum buyers, and teachers to finally realize what it took a small child only minutes to discern. Engela E.
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