cover image Games with Books: Twenty-Eight of the Best Children's Books and How to Use Them to Help Your Child Learn-From Preschool to Third Grade

Games with Books: Twenty-Eight of the Best Children's Books and How to Use Them to Help Your Child Learn-From Preschool to Third Grade

Peggy Kaye. Farrar Straus Giroux, $35 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-374-23455-3

Peggy Kaye, author of Games for Learning, suggests using The Carrot Seed to teach early measurement concepts and Charlotte's Web to introduce multisyllabic words in Games with Books: Twenty-eight of the Best Children's Books and How to Use Them to Help Your Child Learn from Preschool to Third Grade. Each activity comes with suggested grade levels, necessary materials and a listing of the skills addressed, illustrated with Kaye's line drawings. (Mar.)