What Readers Can Do

by Douglas Wood

SCHOLASTIC 2004 by DOUGLAS WOOD

Genres: Fiction, Childrens, Picture Books, School

6 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Composer, recording artist, wilderness guide, and self-taught naturalist-Douglas Wood is perhaps most widely known as the highly acclaimed author of OLD TURTLE, a 1993 ABBY Award winner and an International Reading Association Book of the Year. Author of several books for readers of all ages, Douglas says he is always seeking themes that are universally significant to both children and adults. His first book for Candlewick Press, GRANDAD'S PRAYERS OF THE EARTH-winner of the Christopher Medal for "affirming the highest value of the human spirit"-quietly explores the theme of grief and healing while celebrating a human connection to the natural world and the enduring spirit of love. Douglas Wood kept in mind someone very special to his own life when writing GRANDAD'S PRAYERS OF THE EARTH. "I feel I've been getting ready to write this book all my life, for it is about my wise and gentle hero, my Grandad. It's a prayer and a thank you, a walk in the woods, and a remembering smile; and it is for anyone who has ever had a woods to walk, a prayer to whisper, a hero to love."


Douglas Wood lives with his family in a log cabin on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.

Reviews

[Kitty Wibisono · Rating 3 out of 5]

a good book to introduce the benefit of being readers to your kids

[The Campbell Family · Rating 3 out of 5]

A simple book but still cute.

[Karah Webb · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story has rhyming throughout the short book. I enjoyed how the main characters are little dragons or little monsters of some sort. When a reader reads through this book, their imagination can really soar. Even though this book is very short, reading this book, so many new things and experiences can be created. Young readers will especially enjoy this book because it has the rhyming factor, the great pictures, and the short length. I would give this story to a young reader who does not necessarily know the great benefits of what reading a book can do.

[Miriam · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was cute, but it stood at a bafflingly short six pages. If it had been a standard thirty-two, or even sixteen pages, I would have rated it much higher. As it was, it read more like a small piece of a missing verse of the Reading Rainbow theme song than an honest-to-goodness book.

The rhymes were clever and the vocabulary surprisingly sophisticated, and the point of the book was a good one. I'm sure if this book had been longer, it would be one that would stick in the memory of any young reader as a good reason to keep reading.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

What Readers Can Do is a very short book that points out to children what they can find in books. As adults we realize that books can help us have a fantasy, learn about new things, go back in time with historical fiction and visit far away places, but to a child books are a new experience and this book points out in a few pages all the things a few books can do. When reading and discussing this book I use terms like historical fiction, time travel and fantasy to increase the vocabulary of the children and help them become aware of a name for the types of books that they enjoy.

[Alexis Munk · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very short. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone over 2nd grade. It would make for a great read aloud. It also shows that when you read a book you can imagine you are anyone and you are anywhere in the world. It really shows you how great reading is.

[Theresa · Rating 1 out of 5]

What Readers Can Do
Wood, Douglas
a great collect of books for early readers that will help emergent readers and second language readers

[Bridget]

Have 3 copies

[Erika Little]

4 copies

[Patti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute book, but too short.