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    <body><![CDATA[What a lovely book about the pleasure of reading!  While I was not the target audience of this book which is primarily speaking to teachers and parents about transmitting to children the pleasure of reading, I just loved that the author shares his love of books and why fiction is so important to our...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18038303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A core book in my life and work, and perhaps the book from which I quote the most. This is a book you will dog-ear, underline, and highlight passages so that you can read them to friends and co-workers. You will buy five copies to give away--I have given away dozens!<br/><br/>Really, if you haven'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30911281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Comprei este livro por acaso e fiquei alegremente<br/>surpreendida. O autor aborda questões como o despertar<br/>para a leitura, a obrigatoriedade de se ler algo que<br/>não se quer, os diferentes gostos literários, etc. Na<br/>capa do livro pode-se ler “Como motivar os jovens para<br/>o p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22968609">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in a train trip.  His Bill of Rights of the Reader was especially interesting.  The right to skip pages (and I am so glad he specifically mentioned The Brothers Karamozov...) and the right to quit a book were really great.  It was a book filled of great, simple, whimsical observatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47772172">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Se lee en un suspiro y enseña bastantes cosas sobre el placer de leer y la libertad que debe imperar en la lectura. Me encanta el decálogo, y creo que cualquiera con un poco de sensibilidad entiende lo que dice Pennac sobre la enseñanza de la literatura. En ese sentido, imprescindible, en el lite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57141688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What happened between your toddlers pestering you to read &quot;just one more story&quot; and your teens doing everything to avoid a book?<br/>The book also contains the &quot;Rights of the Reader&quot;.<br/>&quot;Como una novela&quot; in Spanish, &quot;Reads Like a Novel&quot; in English]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  A short book of essays about reading which should amuse librarians.  The 10 rights of readers include the right not to read, the right to skip pages, and the right to read anywhere.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not read it in French! I read &quot;Better Than Life,&quot; the english translation that made it to the states in 1992. One of my favorite books in the world.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever wondered why kids don't like reading their school assignments? Here's the answer from a loving dad and literature professor with a great sense of humour!]]></body>
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