A playful guide to raising kids who love readingperfect for parents trying to fill educational gaps at home How can you turn your distracted, plugged-in child into a voracious reader eager to devour every book in sight? By speaking to their inner bookmonster, of course! In Bringing Up Bookmonsters, wife-and-husband team Amber and Andy Ankowski suggest fun strategies rooted in developmental psychologyabsolutely no flashcards or timers required.
- Talk to your baby bookmonster: Narrate your actions as you do chores and have babble ';conversations.' A love of reading starts at birth with a love of language!
- Build a bookmonster habitat: Keep books in the toy box and alphabet magnets on the fridge.
- Turn storytime into playtime: Try making mistakes your bookmonster will catch. (';Let's read The Dog in the Hat!')
From playing literacy-building games in the car to filling your home library to adapting screen time, raising your bookmonster can be a whole lot of ferocious fun!
