title: A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
author:  Roger Sutton 
description: Not a children's book, but a book for anyone who has ever loved children's books, this collection of essays and interviews is designed to help parents foster a love of reading in children, while providing insight into the craft of children's bookmaking. Collected by Sutton and Parravano, editors of the Horn Book (where some of the book's content previously appeared), the contributions--Jon Scieszka on book design, Sarah Ellis on writing humor, Bruce Brooks and Virginia Euwer Wolff on Holden Caulfield, among others--are grouped into sections that mirror the reading life of a child: reading to children becomes reading with them, which gives way to their growth as independent readers. "By the time a kid is ready to read on his own, he's ready to... read on his own," writes Sutton. "Your job is, essentially, to let him." Sutton and Parravano also contribute commentary, discussing the best books for all ages and reading levels, and what makes them so. It's an indispensible guide at a time when, as Sutton writes, "debates about what qualifies as reading' are as noisy as the concurrent fights over what can be called a 'family.'" (Sept.) <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: _**The Chrome Borne**_
  
   _ **by Mercedes Lackey**_
  
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  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
  book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
  coincidental.
  
    
  
   _Born to Run_ copyright © 1993, _Chrome Circle_ copyright © 1994 by Mercedes
  Lackey and Larry Dixon
  
    
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form.
  
    
  
  A Baen Book
  
    
  
  Baen Publishing Enterprises
  
  P.O. Box 1403
  
  Riverdale, NY 10471
  
    
  
  ISBN: 0-671-57834-0
  
    
  
  Cover art by Clyde Caldwell
  
    
  
  First printing, October 1999
  
    
    
  
  Distributed by Simon & Schuster
  
  1230 Avenue of the Americas
  
  New York, NY 10020
  
    
    
  
  Typeset by Brilliant Press
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
    
    
  
   _ **DEDICATION**_
  
  Dedicated to J.R. and Shirley Dixon, Ed and Joyce Ritche, and to all parents
  with the vision to listen to what kids _really_ wish for—and help them find
  it.
  
    
  
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