William Patrick Martin
Auteur de A Lifetime of Fiction: The 500 Most Recommended Reads for Ages 2 to 102
A propos de l'auteur
William Patrick Martin has been a professor of education at Temple University and Monmouth University and wrote his dissertation on the epic University of Chicago Great Books debate of the 1930s and 1940s. While at Monmouth University Martin was also the director of the Governor's School on Public afficher plus Issues, a selective residential summer program for New Jersey gifted and talented teenagers. His career in Pennsylvania state government included stints as a press secretary, management consultant, and special advisor to the lieutenant governor. He has a doctorate in education and a master's in journalism. afficher moins
Œuvres de William Patrick Martin
The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 (2014) 19 exemplaires
Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books (2015) 10 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 58
- Popularité
- #284,346
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 8
As the book mentions, there are 500 recommendations in it. These 500 recommendations are split into 5 age groups with 100 in each group. Considering the fact that I don’t read early reader non-fiction, this is a great resource if you have young children interested in Dinosaurs or Insects or any number of other subjects. This collection touches upon all of non-fiction, the only variety I didn’t see suggested was a cookbook or a Do-it-yourself book.
Once I got into the older reader sections, I did start to recognize some titles. Heck, a lot of those titles are on my shelves or have been reviewed by me. It is interesting seeing how they explain a book without giving too much away. The early reader books were especially interesting to me in how they describe the different types of paper or how they deal with some sort of emotional event. Some of the early reader non-fiction touches upon events and ideas that I simply wouldn’t know how to relate to a four-year-old child. Take the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, for example. I remember where I was, I remember what I was doing at the time I heard of it, but how does one relate that to a child? The strange sensation of not feeling safe in your own home would be the kind of vibe I got from that. Quite a few books talk about the attempted genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of Nazi Germany. When do you tell your child what humanity has been capable of? However, I digress.
This book was very charming and interesting to read. While the little pictures of the book covers are not in color, the book does an admirable job of describing those titles. I couldn’t really find a solid organizational pattern to when something appeared, but I think they were sorted by subject. This book is a great resource if you are an autodidact or if you are homeschooling someone.… (plus d'informations)