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From the lens How to Choose a Book for a Young Child.

I hope you will now know how to find just the right book gift for the special children in your life.

Please let me know you were here by leaving a comment for me. Maybe some of these book suggestions have reminded you of when you first met these books in your own childhood.

  • MaggiePowell Feb 20, 2012 @ 11:48 pm | delete
    Great suggestions... I love Robert McClosky, Sandra Boynton, and I learned all about heavy equipment by reading "the Road Builders" to my kids about 9000 times. Grin. I love books, love gifting them.
  • imaginemdd Feb 20, 2012 @ 5:16 pm | delete
    We like to give books as gifts, older ones if we can find them, they are treasures
  • debnet Mar 14, 2011 @ 6:33 am | delete
    I love sending books out to my Grandson in South Africa. His Mum reads to him daily and at bedtime. Books are invaluable!
  • sheilamarie Mar 3, 2011 @ 6:01 pm | delete
    Wonderful lens, Barb, with some great suggestions. I love your comment that you are buying the book for the child, not for yourself. It's so important to encourage a child's own interests!
  • sandyspider Dec 7, 2009 @ 7:56 pm | delete
    Giving a book is a great gift.
  • BevsPaper Dec 6, 2009 @ 6:31 am | delete
    Great thoughts on how to choose a book for a young child. As with adults, children will have different tastes in their reading material.

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BarbRad

I have always been a book lover, and learned to read before I started school. In my life I've been student, public library clerk, English teacher in public... more »

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