⭐️ "If you love reading, writing, listening to, or telling stories, then this book is for you!"
​- Kirkus, starred review

Resources

👉 KIDS! Click here for fun reading
​and writing activities

👉 PARENTS! Click here for literacy resources
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👉 TEACHERS! Click here for a Teacher's Guide

You Are a Reader! You Are a Writer! is a 2023 nominee for the Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award, celebrating and promoting an appreciation of quality literature in young children across Kansas. Congrats to all the nominees!

Media Fun

​📘Imagination Soup post, Writers Are Readers and Readers are Writers: Ten Tips to Encourage Literacy at Home
📕Nerdy Book Club post, An Anchor Text for Literacy: Ten Truths About Why I Wrote YOU ARE A READER!/YOU ARE A WRITER!
​📘The Backstory with Andrew Hacket  
📕Book Q&A with Deborah Kalb 
📘Teachers Books Readers blog post by Kate Narita
📕Mina Javaherbin Talking Here podcast 
📘#ReadThisNow booktalk by Principal Dr. Brad Gustafson and teacher Jennifer LaGarde
📗​ Interview on Kate Narita's Chalk + Ink podcast

You Are a Reader!/
You Are a Writer!

Illustrated by Christine Davenier
Margaret Ferguson/Holiday House

⭐️"This cleverly designed picture book is actually two rhyming stories, bound back to back. The stories meet in the middle on a page with text printed in a circle that repeats the mantra that 'readers are writers and writers are readers.' This innovative design reinforces the book’s central ideas:  that reading and writing go together and that, fundamentally, every child is capable of creativity...  
A cleverly designed, engaging picture book about the joy of text." - Kirkus, starred review

"Rhyming text in an upbeat, singsong-y rhythm winds through soft spot art, cheering on new readers and writers in this two-books-in-one picture book.... Each side of the book mirrors the other in structure, providing strategies, acknowledging challenges, and championing the many ways of being a reader or writer.... The gently illustrated vignettes give deeper context to the words and depict many different children in a wide variety of situations, ranging from funny to heartwarming... creating even more stories to imagine within the main story itself."
​- The Horn Book

​"Learning to read and write can be daunting. April Jones Prince presents these related skills with a spirit of joyful adventure in a single-volume, two-part book that can be read from either end... Christine Davenier’s pictures here are, as ever, a treat: With lively lines and delicious dappled watercolors, they radiate coziness and good cheer."
- The Wall Street Journal

"What a marvelous book to have on the  shelves."
- School Library Journal

Are you a reader and writer?
Of course you are!
If you guzzle stacks of books, sound out words, or soak up jokes, you are a reader. Whether you jot down lists, type text messages, or dream up tall tales, you are a writer! With upbeat rhyme and a diverse cast of characters, these pages will encourage and empower young communicators of all kinds.
You Are a Reader! / You Are a Writer! is made to be read twice. Start from one side, and children will see all the joys that reading can bring. Flip the book over, and they’ll be inspired by the imaginative possibilities of writing! After all, reading and writing are two sides of the same coin—or, in this case, two sides of the same book.
Dynamic text and spirited illustrations make this double-sided treasure a true celebration of reading and writing.
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A portion of proceeds from this book supports reading and writing programs for young people, including First Book and the wonderfully creative 826 National network of youth writing centers.

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