[NLA] Re: [NLA] Mother's First Book & Family Literacy Day

[Janet Isserlis]

Tom, Suzanne and all

The issues you raise here are fascinating, complex (and when are 
policy issues ever straightforward?) and certainly worthy of further 
thought and discussion.

I'm wondering, Tom, if you might tell us how/if the book you cite 
below might be available?

thanks

Janet Isserlis

>It seems children's literacy, learning and general success in life are still
>very much deemed the responsibility of mothers, and rationales for educating
>women still seem to rest more on our roles as mothers than on our identities
>as individuals with educational aspirations that include, but are not
>limited to "keeping baby well."
>



>Suzanne Smythe
>Vancouver, BC
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Thomas Sticht" <tsticht at znet.com>


> >
> > In 1930, the Johnson Publishing Company published the first book in the
> > United States aimed specifically at teaching mothers to read. Written by
> > Cora Wilson Stewart, the book was entitled, "Mother's First Book: A First
> > Reader for Home Women."

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