"This innovative study offers age-appropriate book suggestions with related questions and activities tailored to a variety of thinking skills, including verbal/linguistic thinking, divergent/creative thinking, analytical/mathematical thinking, visual/spatial thinking, and many others. Ideal for children's librarians, school librarians, teachers of early childhood gifted programs, parents, and homeschoolers"--Provided by publisher.
Polette describes how a "brain power" story hour can provide the opportunity to share books that help preschool and primary grade children develop the ability to think productively and critically. She offers children's and school librarians, teachers of early childhood gifted programs, parents, and homeschoolers booktalks and follow-up activities designed to build brain power through higher order thinking for specific early childhood thinking processes of conservation, seriation, classification, and reversibility, and the skills of developing verbal and linguistic, divergent/creative, visual/spatial convergent/analytical/mathematical/logical, evaluative/critical, interpersonal and intrapersonal, and naturalistic thinking, describing titles, questions, and activities to develop these skills. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
