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Useful Links

Here are some sites that we recommend to get you started. If you know of others that are helpful, let us know!

Kidsreads.com - reading suggestions, games and activites
Books 4 Kids – The Alameda County Library’s Summer Reading Game blog. New posts all year long!
NY Times Bestseller List – Children’s Books - in many ways, the definitive list of what’s hot in children’s literature.
2009 Notable Children’s Books - from the Association of Library Service to Children
2008 National Book Festival Suggested Reading Lists - from the Library of Congress

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"No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted...Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader." -Jim Trelease
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” - Katherine Patterson
"A house without books is like a room without windows...Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices." -Horace Mann
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