Access to books at home, setting aside reading time, being a reading role model for children, and book choice are proven ways to encourage lifelong reading.
Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about the grandmothers who inspired “Last Stop on Market Street,” including his own grandmother, illustrator Christian Robinson’s grandmother, his own mother, and his mother-in-law (both now grandmothers to his children).
In the 1930s, progressive educators from Bank Street encouraged a new kind of picture book for children that focused on a child’s real life and surroundings.
