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| Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
There's a fairly new shopping plaza near my office that I absolutely love because there's a new Borders inside. I stopped by after work today, with my 20% off coupon in hand. As I entered the sliding doors, I noticed the clearance section out front had some hardback Beverly Cleary books on sale. (::Side note:: I was pleasantly surprised, considering most of the clearance books on display are lame, like How to Make A Friendship Bracelet book that comes with real string. ::End side note::) Now, if you don't know who Beverly Cleary is, she's the author of the famous Ramona series for children.
The book shown here is one of my absolute favorites. Better yet, the book on sale for $7.99 was a hardback Special Edition. I couldn't find a picture of the Special Edition version I saw on the clearance rack, but it basically had the words "Read-Along Edition" on the cover.
Read-along edition? What the crap does that mean? Can someone please tell me what the difference between a RAEdition and the original version of the book is? Isn't that what we're doing with any book... reading along? I know the Ramona books are read out loud by teachers in many classrooms. So is this what RAE is implying? I still don't get it. I opened the book to see some cute illustrations and HUGE print. It was almost blinding. Guess that's what happens when you're so used to reading tiny font on a laptop the size of a sheet of paper.
I guess the RAE means that the font is larger so that children can see the words better and read along side you? Well then, why didn't they just call it Large Print Edition? That makes more sense to me. Am I the only one who has never seen the phrase RAE or thinks it's weird? I don't even know why it boggled my mind so much that I had to go home and blog about it.Labels: Books, Penny for your thoughts? |
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Daph, Read Aloud is usually larger print so it's easier to sit and read the book out loud to someone.
Read Along, at least when my boys were small, was a book that had a cassette tape, or CD, that you put on for the child to follow along with the recording and read the book. It helped a lot when they were moving on to a new reading level.
As for the Beverly Cleary books, I LOVED those as a kid and my kids still enjoyed them years later. Ramona and Beezus were hilarious, or at least I thought so.
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Daph, Read Aloud is usually larger print so it's easier to sit and read the book out loud to someone.
Read Along, at least when my boys were small, was a book that had a cassette tape, or CD, that you put on for the child to follow along with the recording and read the book. It helped a lot when they were moving on to a new reading level.
As for the Beverly Cleary books, I LOVED those as a kid and my kids still enjoyed them years later. Ramona and Beezus were hilarious, or at least I thought so.