The importance of reading aloud to children of all ages...

I attended a workshop last night at the Santa Clara City Library on the importance of reading aloud to children, led by led by Jim Trelease. The program was geared towards parents, promoting the need to read aloud to children through all grade levels and the importance of eliminating television sets from children’s bedrooms. Did you know that two-thirds of school-aged children in the U.S. have television sets in their bedrooms? He also had some good recommended read-aloud books. These included: the series "Deltora Quest" by Radda; "My father’s Dragon" by Gannett; "James and the Giant Peach" by Dahl; "The Neighborhood Mother Goose" by Crews; "The Day the Babies Crawled Away" by Rathmann. All of these titles are available at SJPL.