Full Product Details
Author: Meghan Cox Gurdon
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint: Piatkus Books
Dimensions:
Width: 12.60cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.240kg
ISBN: 9780349422961
ISBN 10: 0349422966
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 16 April 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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Children/juvenile
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College/higher education
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General
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A joyous book that'll have you scrambling to the library * Yours * As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book -- Pandora Sykes * Sunday Times * The Enchanted Hour enthralled me . . . Gurdon's book is the most charming, gentle encouragement to step away from your phone, and into the embrace of your family's most vivid imaginations * Sarah Ivens, author of Forest Therapy * An inspiring argument for sharing the joys of reading * Kirkus * Meghan Gurdon has given today's parents much needed wisdom to raise attentive and curious children in the Age of Distraction. I hope her book finds a huge audience * Rosemary Wells * Don't pick up this bewitching book! It's so enchanting you won't be able to put it down * Mem Fox, author of Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes and Reading Magic * Parents and grandparents shouldn't miss The Enchanted Hour, but more important, we all need to heed this delightful book's wise advice: Please read to your kids. It's not the school's job to get our kids reading, it's our job - and it's a wonderful, magical act of love and caring. * James Patterson *
As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book - Sunday Times Parents and grandparents shouldn't miss The Enchanted Hour, but more important, we all need to heed this delightful book's wise advice: Please read to your kids. It's not the school's job to get our kids reading, it's our job - and it's a wonderful, magical act of love and caring. - James Patterson Don't pick up this bewitching book! It's so enchanting you won't be able to put it down - Mem Fox, author of Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes and Reading Magic Meghan Gurdon has given today's parents much needed wisdom to raise attentive and curious children in the Age of Distraction. I hope her book finds a huge audience - Rosemary Wells An inspiring argument for sharing the joys of reading - Kirkus The Enchanted Hour enthralled me . . . Gurdon's book is the most charming, gentle encouragement to step away from your phone, and into the embrace of your family's most vivid imaginations - Sarah Ivens, author of Forest Therapy
Author Information
Meghan Cox Gurdon is an essayist, book critic, and former foreign correspondent who has been The Wall Street Journal's children's book reviewer since September 2005. Her work has appeared widely, in publications such as The Washington Examiner, The Daily Telegraph, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and National Review. A graduate of Bowdoin College, she lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Hugo Gurdon, and their five children.
