By Caroline Feller Bauer

Designed to make reading so much fun no child can resist, this indispensable handbook offers a marvelous collection of ideas, programs, techniques, and activities. Crammed with actual programs that incorporate toys, puppets, music, costumes, and banners, the programs presented span these areas:

• Storytelling: complete story programs you can use

• Book Programs: base your own on these or use as presented

• Booktalks: to tantalize young readers 

• Poetry: texts of poems children love 

• Games: to play, you must read these stories! 

• Crafts: making book-related items 

• Exhibits: ideas for bulletin boards, chalkboards, and more.

About the Author – Caroline Feller Bauer
"There is absolutely no excuse for a child not to read," says Caroline Feller Bauer, a leading educator, lecturer, author, and authority on children’s literature. "What I do," explains Dr. Bauer, "is run around speaking to librarians, teachers, and parents on how to get children and books together." To this end, she has conducted her lively, imaginative seminars in 50 states and 28 countries. In 1968, Dr. Bauer was the first woman to receive the Ersted Award for distinguished teaching and was given the Dorothy McKenzie Award in 1986 for her contribution to children’s literature.

◘ 378 pp.

◘ 1983
◘ 50 halftones, 400 line drawings
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0678-9
◘ $80 – Sale price $33
◘ $33 (outside U.S. and Canada)