This sturdy 16-page, rhyming board book serves as a gentle encouragement to parents and children to engage in reading together as a team. It's written from the child's point of view and begins:
Read to me
and watch me grow.
Tell me all
the tales you know.
For in this life,
I'll need a map.
Let it begin
upon your lap--
I had the pleasure of sitting next to the author of this book at a dinner held by Albert Whitman & Co. at the AASL conference in Charlotte, NC a few months ago. You know how you meet someone and you like them and you are sooooo hoping you will like the book they wrote as well? I was delighted when Judi shared her book with me. It tugged at my heart and I enjoyed its gently-spoken message about parents bonding with their children through reading. I could hardly wait to share it on readertotz. As the blurb on the back of the book says: "Reading to children from a very early age is one of the most important contributions parents can make..."
Judi is currently an assistant professor at Texas Women's University. She's an advocate for literacy, an author, and has been a teacher-librarian at many classroom levels. And she was a delight to hang out with for an evening!
Read to Me is also available in a Spanish edition: Vamos a leer. And a Vietnamese edition: Doc sach cho con
Read to Me
Author: Judi Moreillon
Illustrator: Kyra Teis
Starbright Books, 2004
