Meet Jeffrey a ten-year old boy who loves adventure. Jeffrey is the middle child with an older sister and younger sister. Jeffrey likes company on his adventures, so he cajoles his friends to join him on the adventures that are sometimes dangerous. God has a message for Jeffrey, but Jeffre...
Here are the best books for 4 year old boys (including both fiction and non-fiction books.) I hope you love them as much as we do! While there are 4-year-olds who read independently, most are more likely to know their letters. Some may know specific written words such as their name...
Teaching a non-native 5 year old how to read Chinese is a new challenge for me. There is no external input from her school or family members, so it is all down to me. For reading specifically, I started with 四五快读 [Quick, Read!], which is a series of 8 textbooks which introdu...
The events Holden narrates are about his sixteen-year-old-self, after recently being expelled from Pencey Prep, a private school in the USA for fighting with his roommate, Stradlater. Illustrating the emotional turbulence of ‘growing up,’ Holden chooses to spend two days exploring in New Yo...
It’s one thing to tear down the old rule, but what are the new rules and how do we agree on them? Then Woolf is surprisingly harsh on a couple of notorious modern writers, James Joyce and T.S. Eliot. She condemns Joyce for his indecency and Eliot for his obscurity. It’s part ...
scattered popcorn in his pocket on the snow for hungry sparrows, and left half of the stump to wait for a big tree to grow again the next year. The whole book is permeated with “Dad’s” ecological wisdom and care for all things in nature, covering important growth elements such as ch...
But that’s not stopping 11-year-old St.signature loan companyLouisan Sidney Keys III who, six months ago, started a reading club for boys his age to band together in their love of books. He calls it Books N Bros, and the club has an emphasis on making reading fun while ...
27 Engaging books for beginner readers New and revered authors and illustrators add artistry to reading and hook young and old readers with the power of storytelling. And introducing kids–– whether they be 1. emergent readers, 2. early readers, 3. transitional readers, or 4. fluent readers–...
Don Aucoin, Globe Staff