Books provide an abundance of opportunity for the reader. Reading allows us to fill our minds with information and learning, and enables us to be anything or anyone we want to be for a little while. We travel to places we can never physically reach and, in our mind’s eye, we see sights that we will probably never see outside of the pages that are making them our temporary reality. Reading for children opens up doors to both fantasy and reality, and gives them a chance to exercise their imaginations, taking them anywhere and everywhere they want to go.
Christmas is the perfect time to give a child their own opportunity to soar. Simon and Schuster Canada offers age appropriate reading for children that provides them with new places to go and new friends to meet. Dork Diaries 11 is reading for girls between the ages of nine and 13, and focuses on what it is like to be at the age where a girl fits in, but not quite, and where she knows what she wants, but isn’t sure. Dork Diaries 11, number 11 in the Dork Diaries Series, continues to reconnoiter the days of leading lady Nikki Maxwell, and follows her as she tries to navigate through yet another predicament plaguing her emotional and melodramatic life. This book continues in the steps of the first ten Dork Diaries Series books in providing girls with fun, easy reading as they come to understand how much they can relate to the thoughts and feelings of Nikki Maxwell.
My daughter is a fan of the Dork Diaries books and I am delighted with the positive influence they have on her. She can identify with the heroine of these stories in many ways. Dork Diaries 11 is filled with decisions and choices that Nikki Maxwell has to make, and demonstrates the different coping skills that can be exercised on a daily basis.
Simon & Schuster Canada also provides other genres for reading that appeal to young girls. The Littlest Bigfoot is a fresh and invigorating story of 12 year old Alice who sees herself as awkward and out of place in the world. A story that teeters on the brink of fantasy and reality, it helps girls to realize that there is so much more to life than meets the eye, and that everyone is beautiful if you learn how to see beneath the surface. Everyone needs a friend, and everyone deserves a friend, as Alice learns throughout this story of realizations and friendship. I love that through The Littlest Bigfoot my daughter can see that everyone has worth, no matter who they are or what they look like.
One of the most positive and successful ways to reach the changing emotions and feelings of a young girl is allow her to leave her own mind and thoughts for awhile and enter someone else’s world. By reading the thoughts and actions of another girl just like her, she gets to see herself in action and realizes her own importance and the significance she has on the lives of those who love her, friends and family alike.
One of the greatest pleasures I have is watching my children enjoy reading and learning as they make their way through a compelling story, whether the story is told in words or pictures. I love giving them the gift of reading for Christmas. It truly is the “gift that keeps on giving”!