Sowell: Christmas Books

Creators Syndicate ^ | December 9, 2014 | Thomas Sowell

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This year, Christmas shopping may be an especially welcome respite from the ugly events going on across the country, as mobs take to the streets because grand juries that examined evidence reached different conclusions from those reached by mobs who made up their minds without examining that evidence.

Perhaps more than in other years, shopping malls can become shopping mauls. One of the ways to make Christmas shopping less stressful is to give books as presents — after ordering them on the Internet. There is a good crop of new books to choose from this year, as well as some old favorites that can make good gifts.

For people concerned about current racial issues, Jason Riley's new book "Please Stop Helping Us" cuts through so much of the current toxic rhetoric spread by politicians, hustlers and media pundits. It is amazing how refreshing plain English and common sense can be, especially when backed up with hard facts that are seldom discussed in the mainstream media.

For parents who have a small child who is still not talking, at an age when other children have long since begun to speak, there is no better gift than the new book "Late-Talking Children" by Professor Stephen Camarata of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Professor Camarata has spent decades researching, diagnosing and treating children who are late in beginning to speak. Moreover, he himself was three and a half years old before he began to talk. Parents going through the anguish of fearing for their child's future will find this very readable new book to be like a ray of light piercing through the darkness.

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Amen...Anyone who instills reading in youngsters is doing a great service, I can still remember some story lines I read as a youngster and I’m old now. :-)