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Guides for Children's Home Learning
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BOOK WORLD
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5 / 1988 |
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Patricia Marie Lines
Patricia Marie Lines is an attorney and policy analyst with
the Office of Research, U.S. Department of Education. The
views expressed here are hers alone, and do not reflect the
position of the U.S. Department of Education. |
THE BIG BOOK OF HOME LEARNING
Mary Pride
Westchester, Illinois: Crossways Books, 1st ed., 1986
347 pp., $17.50, 2nd ed., 1988, 356 pp., $17.50
THE NEXT BOOK OF HOME LEARNING
Mary Pride
Westchester: Crossways Books, 1987
295 pp., $15.00
BOOKS CHILDREN LOVE: A GUIDE
TO THE BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Elizabeth Wilson
Westchester: Crossways Books, 1987
330 pp., $12.95
Talk about books flows quite naturally whenever book lovers gather together. For example, at a recent science fair (an unlikely forum for literary criticism), I overheard some teenagers discussing their favorite science fiction writers. Someone asked, "What book would you take with you if you were stranded on a desert island for twenty years?" The answer came quickly, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." So did second thoughts: "Or maybe Journey to the Moon." Later, an exhibit inspired me to say to a parent, "Have you read Sphereland by Dionys Burger? It's a sequel to Abbott's Flatland and improves on it." I described the book. Her son argued that Abbott's classic is better. I defended my judgment.
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