Literature: the Book, the Place and the Pen
Andrea Louise Ambler & Jerald Eugene Klocek
Illustrator Christine J. Coates

     This is it! This book is written by teachers to encourage the teaching of literature and responding to it. The goal is to inspire the beginning teacher and to reassure the experienced. This book is indispensable for home schooled students and their parents. It is a valuable resource for all grade levels. It includes activities for students that engage them in reading literature and strategies for writing about what they read.

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     Literature: the Book, the Place and the Pen, through its twelve chapters, centers on various genres: short story, novel, non-fiction, folk and fairy tales, drama,  and poetry. Each chapter includes purposes, background information, together with tasks  as well as creative and practical assignments for students. It concludes with ideas for assessments of students' work. The text offers suggested book titles, many with annotations.

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​     The primary aim of this book is to encourage students to become prolific readers in all genres to love reading and to become insightful thinkers and competent writers in various forms.

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     Do come in! Be delighted!