{"product_id":"make-believe-on-telling-stories-to-children","title":"Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the newly appointed National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a timely and intimate meditation on the ways we think about and interact with children's literature, and what that says about our opinions of children and childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMake Believe is a book for adults about books for children, a rallying cry for art and imagination, and a celebration of the power of storytelling in all our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMac Barnett, the beloved, bestselling children's author and U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, urges us to think expansively about the potential of children's books-and the particular brilliance of young readers:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if children are a great audience for art?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if they are in fact better equipped to engage deeply with stories than adults?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if humans' ability to appreciate art is, if not innate, awakened early in childhood?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, then we'd better do our best to make some good kids' books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarnett has published more than 60 children's books, which have been translated into 30+ languages and have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, winning many international prizes along the way. Make Believe is his incisive, intimate, and timely invitation to approach children's literature not only as an art form worthy of deep study and criticism, but as a portal into the lives of the children. And at a time when we are faced with a national literacy crisis, he champions the profound joys of literature and the importance of reading for pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with humor and academic rigor, Make Believe reads like a letter from one's smartest and funniest friend.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48563661045983,"sku":"9781806173150","price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781806173150.jpg?v=1772616112","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/make-believe-on-telling-stories-to-children","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}