How To Raise a Reader by Pamela Paul

I tried to read this as a parent would and not as a librarian and longtime lover of books. This guidebook offers parents encouragement, a pat on the back to help them offer their children this wonderful gift of loving books and reading for pleasure. Even better than art lessons, little league baseball or playing the piano, you don't have to have any inherent talent to enjoy reading. These very knowledgable authors have found a quiet way to push reading and arming you, lucky parent or friend to a kid with lists of age-appropriate titles and subtle ways to encourage reading for even the finickiest readers. A love song to librarians, bookshops and lifelong readers - this is a manual for all. Reading this book will also remind those device attached adults why they loved books and reading in the first place and will hopefully gently nudge family members to put the screen down and pick up a book.