Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955) is an acclaimed American children's author.
Ann Martin grew up in Princeton, New Jersey with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Martin became a teacher and then an editor of children's books; she is now a full-time writer. Martin finds the ideas for her books from many different sources: some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, including the members of The Baby-Sitters Club, are fictional, but many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes[citation needed].
Martin has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending The Baby-Sitters Club series in 2000, Martin’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s. In 2010, Martin published a prequel to The Baby-Sitters Club series titled The Summer Before.
After living in New York City for many years, Martin moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Pippen, and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children. According to the biographical blurb in the back of The Baby-Sitters Club books, she "likes ice cream and I Love Lucy and hates to cook".
In 1990, she created the Ann M. Martin Foundation, which provides grants to causes benefiting children, education/literacy programs, and homeless people and animals.
片麵強調大量識字的一個更隱性也更可怕的後果是,它很有可能會導緻孩子對閱讀喪失興趣。有研究者通過研究發現,那些識字量大的幼兒其閱讀的自主性和閱讀興趣反而更低。其實對於年幼的孩子來講,閱讀應該像吃飯、說話和遊戲一樣,是一種自然而然的活動,而不是需要完成的作業,不需要外界強加給他們。盲目、大批、快速的識字隻會加重兒童的負擔與壓力,使孩子覺得閱讀是一件十分痛苦的事情,孩子甚至見字就怕,産生強烈的厭學情緒。更嚴重的還會齣現心理行為問題,像睡眠障礙、飲食障礙、情緒障礙(如恐懼、焦慮、易怒等),遺尿、多動和抽動(如擠眼等)。用如此大的代價來換取兒童的識字量是得不償失的。
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