The 1989 revision of Ea.vv Rending. Book Seriev and Periodicals for l~ss

Able Renders will be ~lcomed by elassr~m teachers and reading specialists

who know the necessity of obtaining high interest, easy to mad materials for

readers who experience difficulty with text. This revision of the 1979 edition

contains a complete update of such materials and an excellent in,reduction to the

problems involved with text selection.

The authors have provided a double evalualion of high interest, easy to read

book series and periodi~ls. The firsl evaluation wts Io select only tho~ materi-

als that they believed were suitable to recommend. The second ~aluation is in

eluded in each review and is specific to the recommended malerials.

Many titles from the first ediUon have been dropped and many added. The

authors lament the lack of sufficient high qualily malerials and caution the reader

about the limitations in ~olved with their seleclions, Nonetheless, readers will

enjoy this edition and will find it to be a great time saver as they search for

appropriate materials that can serve to encourage the reading habit among their

students.

Prices of materials have been dropped from this edition because they are

ever changing and c~ be misleading after a short period of time.

Easy Rending provides a valuable service to those busy educators who need

quality information concerning independent reading materials+