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Claude
Mom, Cambridge, MA
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Drama teacher for young children (1st to 4th grades). Comments
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Claude
In Getting Your Boy to Read More
I'd love to agree with mom7kids but Arathi S. is right with one exception, there are more and more books for boys.
My son is in 5th grade and sticks nevertheless to his comics and "sport illustrated kids" which I also recommend in addition of "Asterix and Obelix" (illarious and soooo well written even if translated), "Tintin" (mysteries), To add the cherry on the pie, you'll find in the Manga Y.kids (www.myykids.com) "great figures in history" the biographies of Gandhi, Marie Curie, Leonardo Da Vinci or the novels "Gulliver's travels" and "The treasure island". In the Edu.manga (dmpbooks.com), the educational series you'll find the biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven. If you are convinced and go for it you'll find the graphic classics, edition Barron's "the 3 musketeers" (half text, half comics, smartly done), in the saddleback's illustrated classics "the great adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (www.sdlback.com). And the beauty of all, Shakespeare that my son read without a blink (where he won't approach the illustrated simplified version for his age group), 3 different adaptation according to the tastes: Edition Knopf, based on the animated tales as seen on HBO "The tempest", Edition Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers New York, Graphic Shakespeare library "Macbeth" (there are others, don't worry) and Candlewick press (www.candlewick.com) "The merchant of Venice".
To conclude, I'll add a must to be read with your son to laugh with him, the 2 first volumes of "Al's world".
And, if the goal stays to have my son read books with an introduction, a development and a conclusion. Books with subject, verb, complement well written all along, the TEACHER got the last word! As long as they read, it (almost) doesn't matter what:)
Claude
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