Reading Tips!

We all know that the love of reading is crucial to the development of our children and must be instilled at an early age, but how? Read on for tips on how to nurture a lifelong reader:

A regular pattern
In order to foster the habit of reading, it is essential that children are reading books on a daily basis. It is common that children are busy with their daily routine but there are many opportunities to read books to your child during their routine. Right before mealtime is a perfect slot to read some short stories whilst bedtime story is an important part of growing up. When you have a fixed reading schedule, it gives the child something to look forward to!

Let the child select the book
The parents probably select most of the books in the home. Why not let the child have his/her own say on which book to read? Your child should also be given a choice as this allows them develop their own individual thinking.

Interaction
Reading books to your child should not be a solo performance. Whilst reading, questions and answers should be exchanged. Reading time is an opportunity to introduce new concepts to your child, enhance language ability, and to build up his/her knowledge.

Role model
As we all know, parents are role models for their children. It is important that your child knows that you are also an avid reader. Surround yourself with a lot of reading materials at your home and read them!

Reading should be fun and it is a wonderful way to bond with the family!

Joey@booklodge

An important lesson for my children

Tonight, I was reading "High Flier, The Story of Amy Johnson" to my children. The story is about how Amy Johnson, amid the strong view that women were not as capable as men, became a pilot and tried to break the records for long flights around the world in 1930.

Amy Johnson resisted the norm about what a woman should or shouldn't do and challenged her own ability. I was particularly touched to learn that Amy could accomplish her goal partly because she had always had the strongest support from her father. Ceasing the opportunity, I asked Hillary and Alexis on whether they thought there is any gap between the capability of boys and girls, I could not be more delighted when I heard them both shouted firmly, "No!"

In a society where traditional thinking with biased ideas are still finding ways to creep into our children's mind, I am resolute to act fast and teach them to THINK and to make sound judgment.

Joey@booklodge

The Reading Chain

Last week, I was reading the Oxford Reading Tree "A Day in London" to Hillary during bedtime (probably the 99th times) and on page 12, it said Gran took the children to Trafalgar Square where a statue of Nelson stood. I was caught by surprise when Hillary suddenly asked, "Mummy, who is Nelson - the statue at Trafalgar Square?"

I love it when Hillary asked questions. It opens up our dialogue and I would spend long time, as long as required, to explain whatever the subject was and the values that brought along.

To address her query on Nelson, I got her the book "Nelson" by Usborne and tonight, we read the heroic story of Horatio Nelson together.

Joey@booklodge

書緣 / Books and Me

從小便很喜歡看書。愛書的程度甚至連遊戲都是和書有關的 - 當然，我的角色是圖書館管理員，而妹妹則要不停地借書，還書 ... 還要聽我說故事！

我的圖書閣有沒有名字？怎可能沒有呢！愛惜妹妹的我，把她的名字放在前面，自己的在後，將圖書閣名為『卓雅圖書閣』。當時我非常滿意這名字，媽媽也讚好。記得那時應是六至七歲的事。

從此，書便成為生活的部份。雖未能擁有自己的圖書閣，但無論搬到那裹，都會找一個角落放置我的巨形書櫃。長大後一年復一年的繁忙工作跟時間的沖洗令自己改變了，對很多事物都有了不同的看法，喜好亦然。但是，當想到要作出人生中重要的決定 - 究竟應該往那方向發展？第一個念頭卻是與書本有關的工作。加上有了小孩，無時無刻都記掛着小朋友們的需要，很自然地引致書園的成立。

今天，我很高興地說：『我活在夢想中！』

I have loved books since I was very little. I loved books so much that even the game I played was about books - no doubt that I would be the librarian whilst my little sister was asked to borrow books and return them over and over again .... and listen to my story-telling sessions!

Have I given a name to the reading corner? How can it possibly not having a name! As I adored my sister, I put her first name before mine and named the reading corner "Cheuk Nga Reading Corner". I was content with the name, even my mum said it was a good idea. This happened when I was about six to seven-year-old.

Books have always been part of my life. Although I have never managed to have my own library, I was able to squeeze some space for my huge book shelves all along. Growing up and having worked for so many years, I have inevitably changed, in terms of my point of view on many subjects as well as pastimes. Nonetheless, when I reached the junction where I needed to choose what to do for the rest of my life, something about books was the first idea that came up. Being a mother of two young children, I was very concerned about what the younger generation's needs are and Booklodge was formed, naturally.

Today, I am pleased to say, 'I live in my dream!'

Joey@booklodge

團購

Booklodge 成立至今，我們一直在思索如何才能提供最大的優惠給客戶。

最近，我們決定推行團購計劃，第一期精裝目錄亦正在趕製中，相信在三月底前便能寄給會員及有興趣的客戶。

而令我們深感興奮的是，當我們還對外說團購書籍都是以六折發售時，竟發現一些大型書店正是以更高的價錢售賣團購目錄內的童書。以其中一本為例，我們HK$59出售的一本圖畫書，現可在一連鎖書店以HK$102找到。

Booklodge熱切期待推出這團購計劃。我們希望透過團購使家長們以低成本買到優質且種類繁多的書籍，以促進小孩的閱讀習慣。

團購目錄已上載至本網站內。如欲收到精裝目錄，請把地址電郵給我們: info@booklodge.com

Joey@booklodge

Group Purchase Offer

How can we give a real bargain to our customers? This is the question we had in mind for a long time.

Recently, we have been working on the Group Purchase Offer and a critically reviewed catalogue is being produced. We are so proud to announce that the catalogue should be ready by end of March.

What's more surprising to us is the discount we are really offering is even bigger than we claimed!! While we mention we are offering 40% off the market price in the catalogue, a book we are selling at $59 in the catalogue is now being sold by a major bookchain at $102!!

We can't wait to launch the project. By so doing we hope we can really promote the habit of reading to children by offering a much lower cost in buying books for the parents.

Softcopy of the catalogue will be uploaded to our website shortly. If you are interested in obtaining a hardcopy of the catalogue, please email us and leave us your address. Our email: info@booklodge.com.

Joey@booklodge

Bedtime

Reading books to children before bedtime is what every parents must have done and treasured. Sure enough, nothing is better than winding down a long hard day by being with your little ones and reading them their favourite stories. I have this habit of reading bedtime stories to my daughter since she was born. YES, since she was born. At the time, everyone thought I was crazy and said that the baby would not have understood what I was reading. Is it that important for her to understand?

I think the time I read to her, she could feel my love through the cuddles I gave her and most importantly, she heard my voice knowing that mummy was right next to her. I started reading some very simple books to her with lots of colours and funny characters. After repeatedly reading to her every night, her interest towards books and reading have grown tremendously. And now, at 5, she would choose the books she wish I read to her before going to bed. Sometimes, she would even read together with me! Can you think of a better bedtime activity than letting your children lying in your arms listening to the stories they enjoyed?

What's more important, this habit not only nurture your parent-child relationship. By looking forward to each night's bedtime stories, your children get to love books more and more!

Joey@booklodge

For newborns and toddlers

Before our little babies learn to absorb ideas visually or verbally, they are more interested in items they can "feel" with their hands. Lift-the-flap, touch-and-feel and bath books are ideal for them. Some of these books even have sound effects.

If you have these books at home, you will notice your 1 to 2 year-old will always take them off from the bookshelf and keep pressing the buttons or touching the parts with different textures time and time again!

Enjoy reading with your children!












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The Love for Books

It is hard to explain it when you've developed the love for something. The feeling of attachment, the comfort you get from it ... how nice it would be if we could introduce the love for books to our children? This was one of the first few questions we put to ourselves when our first child was born.

We made it as fun as we could, treasured the special moments we spent with them and read only those books we thought would benefit our children. As time went by, we found it more and more difficult to find books with the right quality that priced reasonably. So here comes Booklodge.

For parents who dedicate to the whole-person development of their children, we wish we could assist by providing sufficient quality titles supplemented by regular recommendations and reviews.