WhY I LiKe NoVeL?

Read like a novels is a heartfelt pleading for a new approach to the teaching and learning of a love of reading. Drawing on his experiences with his own son and as a school teacher explains how the pressure put on children to read and the narrow and dogmatic approach to teaching reading take the pleasure out of the activity. His appeals for the enjoyment of a good story to be accepted as a central motivation for reading. This argument has an underlying structure to it, but the presentation is more that of a memoir or novel, with dialogue, characters, and short punchy sections which vary in tone and style. It successfully follows its own injunctions, entertaining and pleasing while informing and convincing. Read like a novels will have obvious appeal to parents, teachers, students, and anyone else involved with education. But it may also make readers reconsider their own motivations for reading, and help find new ways to understand their pleasures. Read like a novels is short, lively, and to the point, and can be read in a sitting.