Reading with Dad

By Dick Jorgensen

All of us have childhood memories of learning to read. All of us know the importance of spending time with our children as they grow and learn. Reading With Dad , written by Richard Jorgensen and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931674417
• ISBN13: 9780931674419
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Waldman House Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

Customer Reviews

Reading is sooo important!!

This is such a touching book. I have used it with my eighth grade class every year. It also makes a great forensics presentation for all you forensics coaches.

how i feel about this book

I think this book deserves more attention then it got. This book rocks!

A Fantastic Gift for a Grown Daughter to Give Her Father!

With Father's Day coming up, what can a grown daughter with a family of her own give as a present to a father who always read to her? This book makes an ideal choice. Any father would be thrilled to receive it, along with a photograph of father and daughter reading together. If you don't have such a photograph now, why not pose for one?"We're there in the photo that hangs on the wall,/ the first childhood memory I can recall . . ."The poetry develops around a mutual love of reading, and the closeness that it has brought. The illustrations by Warren Hanson add a timeless, but time-tinged, romantic feeling to these moments of closeness that will tug at your heart. And what do you think they are reading in the first photograph? Why, The Cat in the Hat! Think of that! "That photograph shows the best times that I've had:/ all those times I spent reading with Dad." As the story develops and time passes, the roles change. At eight, her father listens to her reading to her dolly, hamster and stuffed bear. In college, they would discuss authors over the telephone that she was reading. After she is a mother, she owns the old reading chair, and he watches her read The Cat in the Hat to her two little girls. As he ages, she reads to him while he is in bed. As she thinks about all of these experiences, she remembers that "there was always a book before saying good-night." "The best of the times that I've ever had/ are all of those times I've spend reading with Dad." The illustrations are filled with closeness, Dad and daugher hugging or sitting close to one another. They make you feel a warmth in your chest that makes you yearn to have such moments with a father or a daughter. But if you are like me, you will find that the best part is the idea of how to use reading as a connection throughout life. What a wonderful way to reinforce a heritage of reading! I suggest that you think about how you can build on all of those wonderful stories you read together years ago. One way that I did it was to ask my daughter which books we had read together she liked best. Then I wrote a review of each one, and posted it on-line giving her full credit for the selection. In many cases, I also described her reactions to the stories. In this way, she can read a journal of our experiences together with those books. And the journal can be shared with her children someday. You can do the same . . . or even better, pick something that will mean even more in your family!Connect with all you love and care about through books and reading!

Wonderful!

"Reading with Dad" is a wonderful story that "really speaks to you" according to one child. The concept is brilliant - revolving around the act of reading throughout life - while not being overwhelming. This one-of-a-kind storybook is beautifully worded and delightfully illustrated. And it is a great way to inspire children to read while encouraging adults to read with children. Recommended for all children but especially as a gift for a child, a babyshower present, or an addition to a preschool or elementary classroom.

A lyrical text that is superbly and appropriately enhanced

Richard Jorgensen has written a remarkable book showcasing the profound familial pleasures of a parent reading a book to a child. Reading With Dad focuses on the joys and love of reading, on the strengthening of child/parent bonding and does so with a lyrical text that is superbly and appropriately enhanced with the memorable artwork of Warren Hanson. Reading With Dad can be read with deepest enjoyment by young and old alike, and will be inspirational to all parents seeking to create life-time memories of shared enjoyments with the children, instill within their children a love of reading and of books, as well as children needing that "quality together time" with a parent that no among of mutual television watching can ever hope to equal.