By Jason Boog on Galley Cat, December 2, 2011
Tomorrow (December 3) is Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day.What bookstore will you visit with the kid in your life? Founded by novelist Jenny Milchman, the new tradition urges parents to pass along the joy of bookstore shopping to the next generation.
Check it out: “Have a look at our Bookstores page to see a map of the almost 150 bookstores participating in Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day–and add your bookstore to the map! Also see our Books page for the children’s book we loved best this year. And finally, here’s how you can spread the word about Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day.”
Footnote:
What about setting up this great idea in New Zealand?
2 comments:
A simple change in "education" could provide a great example: for the Government to buy into the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program as an option for all our pre-high schools. Under the IB PYP, each primary class each year studies six "glocal themes" (global and local): such as endangered species; water systems; and the solar system: each for six or seven weeks. All other "subjects" are woven into those themes. And in advance of each study theme, IB Curriculum Coordinators check the latest television, video and book productions that provide updated information to teachers, students and parents. All 3,000 IB schools also share interactive lesson plans to swap new ideas and ways of learning. So in that way parents are also encouraged to take their children to bookshops, libraries, planetariums, museums and online sources so the entire family can learn together. Simple. Gordon Dryden, Auckland.
Thank you very much for discovering this special holiday. I would love to speak about taking it to New Zealand!
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