Welcome to the Children's Hour - Literacy Begins At Home

CLASSICS

Classics should make a major contribution to a child's education, merriment, and appreciation of literature, provide clear standards of right and wrong, show the ethics of human behavior, and evoke wholesome laughter.

A sense of honor and value surround great literature. Laughter, pain, hunger, satisfaction, love, and joy are found in classics. When our children become familiar with this kind of writing, they have a foundation for making comparisons. Not everything they read will be excellent, but they will know a story's possibilities.

Read stories in their original versions, not the watered-down ones without any drama of life. They may retell the classic stories, but the basic elements that make the stories classics are omitted.

With the influx of new books for children flooding the market each year, old favorites are in danger of being crowded out. Generations of children are missing the opportunity of listening to classical children's literature. This is unfortunate because classics are the cornerstone to building a life-long relationship with literature.

Literacy Begins At Home

Reading is the foundation of literacy, however, the love of reading develops over the years when good literature is available for the reading and listening pleasure of children.

Literacy begins at home by reading to children, and there is no better way of developing their future reading skills than by reading to them throughout their childhood. Children need to hear and eventually read stories that are guaranteed to teach good morals, ethics, and values. They also need stories for pleasure, laughter and fun.

Through literature, children learn about people who contribute something of value to others' lives, who make hard decisions and who have the courage to overcome adversity. Children need heroes and role models, and literature is one of the best ways to teach these values.

We hope that you will enjoy our selections. From the classics to contemporary stories, they represent some of the best of imagination and fun.

Ages 8-11

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WHAT MAKES A GOOD BOOK

Well-written stories should have good themes, valid characters, and should be people centered, not problem centered. They should not be depressing, dreary, and focused on the dark social problems of today's society.

Children need heroes and role models to emulate. They need to hear about people who contribute something of value to others' lives, people who make hard decisions and have the courage to overcome adversity.

There are two types of literature: fiction and non-fiction. However, it is fiction that brings children the enchantment of storytelling and ultimately a future love of reading.

It is through fiction that good stories and beautiful pictures can profoundly affect children as well as adults.