LISNews: Librarian News

A Nice Little Story by a high school student says \"Reading is our ticket to and out of this world; no matter where a reader may be, as soon as the book is open, boundaries cease to exist and no sky is the limit.\"
She says there is virtually no excuse for avoiding an entire world of worlds found in books. She also points out \"The best part about reading is that there are no commercials – it\'s at your own pace, and although readers may find themselves believing otherwise, the story never starts without them.\"

SomeOne writes \"Here\'s a nice one that says kids would rather watch television or play sports and other activities than read. Too-busy parents often don\'t take the time to make reading to their children a priority, let alone sit back with a good book themselves.

In fact, only about half of children ages 3 to 5 have a book read to them by an adult each day. That\'s one reason why 40 percent of youngsters entering kindergarten are not prepared, the PR Newswire Association reports.
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SomeOne writes \"This Washington Post Story about students Relying on the Internet for Research, while teachers Try to Warn of the Web\'s Snares

They call this the world of Net thinking, a form of reasoning that characterizes many students who are growing up with the Internet as their primary, and in some cases, sole source of research. Ask teachers and they\'ll tell you: Among all the influences that shape young thinking skills, computer technology is the biggest one.
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See Also, a press release with some \"advice\" on shopping for students.

Charles Davis points to This Washington Post Story that talks about teenagers as the demographic that almost everyone in the book industry -- librarians, publishers, booksellers -- wants, and as the number of
teenagers in the population has risen, so has teen buying power for all
kinds of items, including books.