Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book by Anita Silvey (Editor)
Reading level: Young Adult to Adult
Roaring Brook Press; 1 edition (October 13, 2009)
Cautions: None

Kiwi Magazine Review:
I wonder how some of these authors would feel if they read this book and saw how their words and characters profoundly influenced people. Notable people contribute to this collection by writing about how a children’s book taught them life lessons which influenced them. I found this book to be fascinating from the light take on a book by Jay Leno to more cerebral interpretations by Lesley Stahl. Moreover, this collection of essays provides the titles of books which functions as a must-read list for all.

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Product Description
“What children’s book changed the way you see the world?”

Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired leaders in society, and she learned about the books that shaped financiers, actors, singers, athletes, activists, artists, comic book creators, novelists, illustrators, teachers…

The lessons they recall are inspiring, instructive, and illuminating. And the books they remember resonate as influential reading choices for families. EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM A CHILDREN’S BOOK–with its full color excerpts of beloved children’s books, is a treasury and a guide: a collection of fascinating essays and THE gift book of the year for families.

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