Reading Picture Books With Children

Reading Picture Books With Children How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See By: Megan Dowd Lambert / Foreword by: Chris Raschka Storytime isn't the whole story. . . What do the children see in their picture books? "I wanted to reflect on and value specific moments of insight, delight, wonder, puzzlement, and pleasure that have arisen from the times when I've met children in the pages of picture books and have really listened to what they have to say about what they see and hear."  —from the preface, by Megan Dowd Lambert Megan Dowd Lambert began laying the foundation for the Whole Book Approach when she was working for the education department of the Eric Carle Museum and earning her graduate degree in children's literature from Simmons College. Several years—and about twenty-five thousand students and three thousand professionals—later, Megan is ready to share her groundbreaking technique for reading picture books with young children. Chapters cover sub