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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Does not make for pleasurable reading...,
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This review is from: From Cover to Cover (revised edition): Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books (Hardcover)
Although Horning's "From Cover To Cover" is very thorough, covering picture books, easy-readers and transitional books, as well as middle-grade fiction, it does not make for a pleasurable reading experience. Horning's approach is to information dump. The text is humorless and lacks any kind of compelling authorial voice or style; the chapters range from just 10-30 pages in length, yet they seem arduously long because they're written in competent college-freshman prose. The book's typography and layout--yawn--seem hot off the press of an outdated version of Microsoft Word, the publisher using the default settings of Times New Roman and reformatting the manuscript to 1.5 spacing. "From Cover To Cover" has good content. Too bad it's an absolute bore to read.
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From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Book by Kathleen T. Horning
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