Maria Russo, HOW TO RAISE A READER

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Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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I loved interviewing Maria Russo. She is the former children's books editor of The New York Times Book Review, and she and co-author Pamela Paul wrote How to Raise a Reader, which is right up my alley. It was just great to talk about someone who is equally passionate about reading and teaching children to cultivate a lifelong love of reading. Maria talks about how the difficult part is ensuring children have access to a lot of different and diverse books and that's where parents can really take action, how important librarians are, and how reading is the ultimate way for us to reflect and connect.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms don't have time to read books.
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0:53.2	I loved interviewing Maria
0:54.7	Russo. Maria is the former children's books editor of the New York Times Book Review. She and co-author
1:01.0	Pamela Paul wrote How to Raise a Reader, which is like right up my alley. We had so much to talk
1:06.6	about and even came up with this great idea, I think, of a new business. And it was just great to talk
1:12.0	about someone who was equally passionate about reading and getting our kids to read and all the
1:16.8	rest. So enjoy. Welcome, Maria. Thanks so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books.
1:21.7	Hi, Suvie. Thanks for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure. How to Raise a Reader. This is like one of the things on my mind all the time.
1:29.4	I have four kids and I am constantly trying to like figure the answer out to this. And you've done it.
1:35.8	You've written the book on it. Tell me about the book. Like what inspired you to write this book?
1:41.3	Why tell me more about it. Well, you know, as you say, I'm a mom to you. I have
1:46.2	three kids and my co-author, Pamela Paul, also has three. And there we were at the New York Times
1:52.8	book review, you know, thinking about the subject all the time, really, in our personal lives and in our
1:58.6	work life, right? Because I was the children's books editor.
2:07.6	She was and is the editor, but had previously been the children's books editor. So we just,
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