Book Recommendations

Three quick book recommendations from Her Royal Excitedness:

Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life by Gladys Hunt. It's an excellent resource absolutely FULL of wonderful book recommendations based on your child's age.

Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It by Jane M. Healy. A quote from the Amazon.com editorial review best describes in a nutshell what the book is about: "clearly conveys the relationship between language, learning, and brain development, then explains why television viewing and present-day lifestyles sabotage language acquisition, thinking, and personal success." Warning: The research presented in this book is completely counter-cultural.

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv. This is a call to unstructured play--in natural environments (a.k.a. Nature).