Comments on: Three of My All-Time Favorite Books for Adults and Children http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Sun, 26 May 2013 02:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1792 Fri, 25 May 2007 15:35:33 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1792 There’s a lot of truth in your last point: the best books for children are the ones they’ll read. I haven’t read the Harry Potter series (though I’m planning to start soon), but many reviewers have suggested that they aren’t great literature. And they’ve clearly more children excited about reading than any books of their generation. Thanks so much for your comments on this. I appreciate having a booksellers’ perspective.

]]> By: The Bagel of Everything http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1791 Fri, 25 May 2007 12:00:04 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1791 My last job came with the glamorous title of Director of Children’s Literature. The little indie bookstore couldn’t pay us much in cash, so they made up for it in resume fodder.

Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones series were among the most popular. While I don’t feel these books were among the most educational for lower grade kids, the children read them voraciously. I wonder if, maybe, the best books for kids aren’t simply the ones they will actually read.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1786 Wed, 23 May 2007 15:53:41 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1786 One of the sections of my edition of “How to Read a Book” is called “Three Kinds of Note-making.” It’s very helpful in that respect (and others).

“Madeline” is one of the all-time great books for preschoolers and some young school-age children. The second book in the series (“Madeline’s Rescue”) won a Caldecott Medal, and this was clearly a case of the American Library Association playing catch-up with what children and their parents had figured out years earlier.

]]> By: P http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1785 Wed, 23 May 2007 09:37:21 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/three-of-my-all-time-favorite-books-for-adults-and-children/#comment-1785 I’m going to have to pick up ‘How to Read a Book’ and ‘Madeline’.

I’ve noticed that my reading has changed in the past few years. More notes (there were never any to begin with), more inspection of words and feelings conveyed and inferred.

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