Alice Ozma, a recent Rowan University graduate, currently lives in the Rittenhouse Square area of Philadelphia, PA. She is passionate about literature, education, and working with children. Find out more about this author by visiting her website: www.makeareadingpromise.com.
"A warm memoir and a gentle nudge to parents about the importance
of books, quality time and reading to children." -Kirkus
Reviews
"Alice Ozma has given us the gift of a remarkable love story. In
her love of books, and of her father, we see the most-meaningful
promises we might make to our own parents, our own children, and to
ourselves." -Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor, The Last Lecture
"Ozma's work is humorous, generous, and warmly felt, and with a
terrific reading list included, there is no better argument for the
benefits of reading to a child than this rich, imaginative work."
-Publisher's Weekly
"Persuasive and influential, poignant and inspirational, Ozma's
exuberant paean to the joys and rewards of reading-- and being read
to-- is a must-read treasure for parents, especially, and
bibliophiles, certainly." -Booklist, starred review
"Tender, funny, and deeply readable, THE READING PROMISE tells the
story of how a simple ritual became a treasured father-daughter
tradition. Promise yourself to revisit what matters...promise
you'll pick up this tribute to the ways in which books change
lives." - Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine's Bookshelf
"This is the perfect book to hand any curmudgeon who needs
reminding that reading makes a difference or thinks that today's
youth are all blase. Highly recommended." -Library Journal, starred
review
"THE READING PROMISE is a powerful testament to the difference a
parent's devotion and the act of reading can make in a child's
life. A rare and triumphant story." - Chris Gardner, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happyness
This is about so much more than books and reading. It's about
single-parenthood and childhood, about raising a loving, witty,
articulate kid, and all of it accomplished without anyone turning
into the Alpha-Parent/Tiger-Dad. -Jim Trelease, author of The
Read-Aloud Handbook
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