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Shhh! I’m reading

text: John Kelly /  illustrations: Elina Ellis

The child is so absorbed in reading an interesting book that she refuses to play with her imaginary friends. This is a story about the magical world hidden in books, which celebrates reading and the amazing worlds that books present!

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This book encourages children to love reading and highlights its entertaining aspects, as each scene takes us on an amazing journey, delving into enticing fantasy worlds and adventures, all in an exciting harmony between the text and the drawings.

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Dear Parents,

On a Sunday evening, Bella is reading a book. When she reaches the amazing scene near the end, its fictional heroes pop up and suggest that she accompany them on fun new adventures, but she prefers to continue reading the story until the end.

This book encourages children to love reading and highlights its entertaining aspects, as each scene takes us on an amazing journey, delving into enticing fantasy worlds and adventures, all in an exciting harmony between the text and the drawings.

At this stage, our child can’t read smoothly, and so we need to stay with them, read to them and read with them. The book enchants the child, makes them identify with its characters, emphasize with them, and search for possible solutions to their problems. In this way, the book can develop the child’s imagination, help enhance their creativity, enrich their language, and expand their worlds.

Like Bella, our children, at this age, are interested in and prefer stories of adventure, magic, and fantasy, and continuing to read will make them passionate about stories and reading, just like Bella.

Family Activities

  • Let’s talk
  • About the child’s passion for reading her book: The child is immersed in reading her book and cannot leave it. In your opinion, what is the book about? Is there anything that tells us that? What about the drawings? Is there something that attacks them and they cannot let go of?
  • About reading habits at home: The child chose to read her book on a rainy day. We can ask our children: When would they like us to read to you? We can ask ourselves: Do we read as parents so our children would imitate us?
  • About the types of books that our children prefer: With our children, we can try to remember books we have read, and we can ask them: Which books do they like? Why?
  • The characters in the book: The child’s imagination is imbued with the heroes of the books she has read and communicated with. We can ask our children: Which book characters do they know and would like to have a conversation with?
  • Let’s act and play
  • We can choose a fictional character that our child likes from one of their favorite books, or from this book, and we can act out the role of that character who tries to persuade the child to leave her book, and the role of the child who clings to the book.
  • The drawings highlight many different games. We can choose a game and play it with our children at home.
  • Let’s create
  • The book’s drawings are very beautiful and contain various details about legends and stories from around the world. We can choose one of these stories, and we can search for a movie that was adapted from it. We can read the story together, and then watch the movie in an intimate family environment.
  • Enjoy your reading!

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