Holes is a great book for a reluctant reader, in fact it may be THE great book for a reluctant reader. In a situation not unlike The Shawshank Redemption but with kids, we find our hero Stanley Yelnats interred in a children’s hard labour camp for a crime ...
When I'm teaching, making resources or preparing for this blog, I'm always picking up and reading children's books. The books I enjoy (and there are plenty I don't) tend to divide up into four main groups:
- Books I love due to pure nostaligia: toasty warm blankets of childhood memories, ...
The Phantom Tollbooth is one of my all-time favorite books. What makes this gem even more special is that it is a gift to the tutor. This book manages to make all learning both ridiculous and relevant in a way that the classroom is seldom able to achieve. Learning, at its worst, is abstract and boring but in these ...