Raising a Reader

Can passion be passed along from parent to child? Can you, in other words, make someone love baseball, ballet, or books? Of course you can’t – but that doesn’t stop parents from trying. Jennie Nash was one of those parents – a parent so focused on getting her kids to read that her desire sometimes strayed into desperation, her hope often became an obsession; and instead of helping, her resolve got in the way. In the end, she found that, like so many of the things we do as parents, passing along a passion for reading happens in the push and pull of digging in and letting go, day in and day out, both because of and in spite of our efforts.

Status: 1 in stock

Number of Pages: 127

Published: 2003

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Format: Hardcover

ID#: 12067

DC#: 028.5 N