Paula Montgomery

The use of paper dolls or action figures have been a technique for many years in involving children in literature activities. Montgomery published many of these sample activities in Crinkles magazine and has collected them here for use by fans. We are aware that such activities are popular with scheduled classes in the library media center. No doubt the children enjoy the activity, but we favor much more substantive uses of the time available while retaining the fun nature of the crafts. Perhaps paraprofessionals could use this volume to work with students in the appreciation of reading, but for teacher librarians, there is just not the depth here to boost achievement. The idea of using action figures is a good one. Pursue that idea but in more substantive ways.… (mere)