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Recommended Reading List

Books to Excite, Teach and Encourage Young Readers

By iParenting Staff

Magical Max Makes Friends (Lead Life Press, 2005) by Mary Lou Decosterd, Ph.D.

Max ventures out in search of friendship. Max's friendships take on many forms, each one more interesting than the next. Max comes to realize that making friends takes kindness and patience. He also comes to understand that what seems strange at first isn't so strange after all.

Jazz (Holiday House, 2006) by Walter Dean Myers

The award-winning father and son team, Walter Dean and Christopher Myers, get together for an exuberant jam session that celebrates the different styles of jazz. From ragtime to swing, be-bop to fusion, these 15 poems bounce and bop, or slide and stride, reflecting the sounds and colors of America's homegrown music. Dedicated to the children of New Orleans.

The 39 Apartments of Ludwig van Beethoven (Schwartz and Wade, 2006) by Jonah Winter and Barry Blitt

Based on a little-known fact about Beethoven, here's a hilarious mockumentary that details how a genius' legless pianos were hoisted, propelled and levered out of one flawed apartment and into the next ... all while their owner composed some of the greatest music the world has ever known.

My Neighbor Is Gone (eVision LLC, 2006) by Leah Holder Wiggins

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