Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't: How It Happens and What You Can Do About It

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So you love reading and your kid doesn't. What caused this state of affairs, and what can you do about it? In Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't, Mary Leonhardt pins the blame on the educational establishment for the endemic dislike of reading among kids, and provides direct solutions. Her basic approach may surprise you: provide reading material that is easy and fun for children. Start with comic books, junk books, romance novels, mysteries, genre books of all kinds. The premise is simple: only avid readers are excellent readers; excellent readers become excellent only because they read a lot. Leonhardt, a long-time high school English teacher, makes a strong case for her techniques, and has the track record to prove it.

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Most parents would probably agree that a love of reading is the most important thing their children could acquire in the course of their education.Yet even parents who love to read themselves sometimes find that their kids just aren't interested in books. What do you do about your reluctant reader?

Mary Leonhardt has the answer. In Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't, she shows how to awaken, or reawaken, your child to the joy of reading. Drawing on her experience as a teacher (and a parent) of reluctant readers, she identifies the seven stages that children go through as they develop their reading skills and outlines what parents can do to help them along. Her advice is clear, down-to-earth, and proven effective.

Mary Leonhardt also offers tips on how to deal with the special problems poor readers often face at school, and how to cope with TV and other distractions. Finally, she offers an extensive list of kid-recommended reading -- not books from school reading lists, but certified fun-to-read titles chosen in a poll of her own students. Her methods have worked with scores of students. If you are the parent of a reluctant reader, this is the book both of you need.

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Good sense from a teacher/mother.......2006-06-05

Mary Leonhardt, the author of several other volumes on the process of getting your kid to love to read, speaks to the problem from two angles: she has taught English for over 20 years, and she has three children of her own (she includes several anecdotes from her experience in raising them). Look through the second chapter of this book and you immediately find yourself saying, "This makes so much sense!" (The one thing she should have mentioned--which is one reason I rate the book at four stars instead of five--is that teachers almost invariably "teach" any literary work, from story in a reader to a poem to a full-length novel, by requiring the students to pick it to pieces and analyze it to death, which is *not* what authors have in mind and which can turn a kid off reading faster than anything else in the known Galaxy. It would have me, if I hadn't loved to read well before I ever darkened the doors of a school.) Her solution: since school reform is almost impossible (owing to government regulation and the entrenched bureaucracy--although she does have words of praise for the rediscovery of "whole language"), parents (and teachers) should allow and encourage young people to read *what interests them*. If that means Richie Rich comics and what some readers (and parents) call "trashy" or "drugstore" books (like Kathleen Woodiwiss romances), then that's what you have to give them. Leonhardt understands that no child can learn to love to read unless he/she is given books that are *fun* to read, that speak to that particular young reader's individual interests and personality. In short, no kid is a carbon copy of any other kid, and they shouldn't all be expected to read the same stuff!

Leonhardt's suggestions for parental action are workable and logical, and she includes a bibliography of suggested reading that ranges from comics and magazines to venerable "summer-reading-list" titles, all annotated to explain why kids might like them. (Once you've exhausted this, online Readers' Advisory found at various public-library websites may suggest other possibilities.) If you want your kid to read, and can't homeschool, she may be your best hope.

This makes so much sense.......2003-05-13

As a kindergarten teacher and mother of two teen-aged sons, I have to say that this book changed both the way I teach and the way I approach the loaded topic of reading with my sons. I had been a book snob for years, not allowing certain kinds of books based on comics or movies into my home or classroom. After reading this book, I called a meeting for the parents of my students and told them I was going to scour the thrift stores that weekend for "trashy" books with high kid appeal. I bought books with Star Wars characters and Scooby Do on the covers, and my kids were clamoring to borrow them.
With my teen-agers, I told them I was taking them to the book store and that they had to pick something out. My 17 year old rolled his eyes but picked out Maus, which he loved. My 14 year old got The Weekly World News, (a tabloid) and now wants a subscription. Please get this book back in print.

A Real Eye-Opener.......2000-09-15

This book is an extremely thoughtful and provocative book aimed at parents who are avid readers yet are struggling with a child who is not as interested in reading. The book is probably best targetted towards parents of junior high and high school students, but I found it useful even though the object of my own concern is a 2nd grader who does not share her parents' or siblings' interest in reading.

Ms. Leonhardt's argument is very thought provoking - her belief is that kids become avid readers by, well, READING - she isn't as concerned with WHAT they read as with getting them reading something. Thus her analysis suggests that it's OK if kids are drawn to comic books, "trashy" books, etc. and that parents should perhaps back off a little on the "quality" of books in order to allow kids to become hooked on reading. She believes that once a child becomes an avid reader, they will branch out. The key is to get them to become an avid reader.

This book is loaded with ideas and thoughts to use to try to motivate a child to read, and contains a reading list at the end of suggested book titles.

I haven't done justice to her argument - this book is well written, clearly argued, and supported with evidence. It makes a real page turner in its own right for a parent struggling with this issue. It is a breath of fresh air.

On balance, I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who fits the title's description.

Solid Gold.......2000-06-07

This book is a treasure chest waiting for you to open. The author admits that even children who have been read to since they could sit up may not love reading, and this unloads the burden of guilt that many of us have been carrying around for years. Leonhardt also provides many concrete suggestions for parents and teachers. This book is a must for all homes and schools.

Fantastic book and author........1997-06-10

This is a fabulous book for frustrated parents of children who can't/won't read. After I read it, I took my 11 yr. old daughter out, let her buy any 3 magazines and she read them right away. This book is clearly written and organized, with a very helpful recommended reading list at the end. I highly recommend it

Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't: How it Happens and What You Can Do About it

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Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't: How it Happens and What You Can Do About it
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Highly useful, yet dated (1997 publication date) .......2007-08-03

This is an excellent book for the Civil War buff and the Civil War book collector. This book covers over 1100 different books on the period organized into an easily followed and highly useful work. The book looks at the most significant works in place (as determined by a panel of Civil War historians Gallagher, McPherson, Neely, Geoffrey, and Robertson) for all sorts of Civil War topics with typically a brief synopsis (3 paragraphs or more) of the work, any biases that are present as well as any errors that appear in the work. Each entry also lists publication information for all editions of that book, making it a great reference work for collectors. There is also a very helpful index, listed by author, which makes it possible to find works authored by your favorite writers.The only problem with this book is that it is now 10 years old, so it does miss a portion of significant Civil War scholarship, however, it is unequaled as a guide to works published before 1997.

A frequently helpful compilation.......2003-12-05

In my daily perusal of ebay book auctions, I use Eicher's bibliography in deciding whether and how much to bid for an intriguing but unfamiliar title. His descriptions are usually interesting in themselves, and in many cases I have learned a lot without ever getting the book in question.
The major drawback is his blind prejudice against Confederates.

Essential for every Civil War student........1998-03-01

The author, who seems to have read everything ever written about the Civil War, has shared his expertise by selecting and describing 1100 of the most important books on the Conflict, with summaries, and comparisons, where appropriate, with competing works. His informed choices serve as a reliable guide to the best and most useful, but include a few (e.g., Gone With the Wind), which are perhaps of lesser value but which must be included for the sake of completeness.
The work is organized into the broad themes of Battles and Campaigns; Confederate Biographies, Memoirs, and Letters; Union ditto; General Works, and Unit Histories, and handily subdivided into topics such as Soldiers, Sailors, Politicians, Equipment, Battlefields, Railroads, and more. The States have additional, separate listings of their own.
Eicher's work will stand as a classic reference, which will be of value indefinitely to students of the Conflict, as a starting point for beginners or to fill in gaps for Old Hands. Highly recommended.

The "score' rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

The Civil War in Books an Analytical Bibliography
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The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography
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The Jesuit Relations is a massive, 73-volume library of French Jesuit missionaries' perspectives on Native North America in the 17th century. Due to the vastness of the collection, these documents, vitally important in telling the story of early American encounters, have been virtually unteachable until now. Allen Greer deftly binds them into a collection, and his introduction provides background on these Jesuits, the Natives, and their co-habitation in early North America. Greer has created a rich resource of journal entries by famous missionaries as well as a wealth of natural history, ethnographic detail, and travel diction through firsthand accounts of early American history.

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Great Book.......2004-04-28

If you are student of Native American studies or just interested at all in the early contact of Indians with Europeans this book is perfect. Surprisingly interesting and very helpful in fleshing out an oft shaded part of American/Canadian history. This offers a wonderful though slightly tainted point of view on the customs of specific Indian tribes. My favourite section has to be the writing if father Paul Le Jeune on the non-sedentary tribe of the Montagnaise. Greer's editing is great especially for the non-academic reader (I've read some of the unabridged version which was slightly painful) Maybe I'm just a nerd but I think this book would be entertaining even for those with less than scholarly knowledge on the subject.

Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada (Library of America)

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A Homeric work
The Homeric Tale of North America's Founding
Dated history, still highly readable.
Massive work on France in North America
A Titanic Achievement

Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada (Library of America)
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This is the first of two volumes presenting all seven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the adventures he describes. This volume begins with the tragic settlement of French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts north as explorers like Samuel de Champlain map the wilderness and wage savage forest warfare against the Iroquois; resolute Jesuits attempt to convert the Indians and suffer captivity, torture, and martyrdom in the wilderness; conflict rages in French Canada between religious extremists and fur traders. Dominating all is the fiercely indomitable La Salle, whose obsession with colonizing the Mississippi Valley leads to vast treks across the western prairie and assassination in a lonely Texas swamp.

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A Homeric work.......2005-10-02

Parkman's (multi-volume) account the of the struggle of France and England for North American dominance remains the classic history. It is commodious in scope, majestic in vision, and equal with Thucydides in tragic magnitude. Parkman describes what North America once was (with invaluable discriptions of natives), and what still lies below the surface of what we've become.

There are other valuable sources. Morison [The Northern Voyages 500-1600 (1971), The Southern Voyages 1492-1616 (1974), Samuel de Champlain (1972)]. Anderson (Crucible of War) and Eccles (The French in North America). None are as eloquent as Parkman, though Morison's Voyages are equally worthy.

The Homeric Tale of North America's Founding.......2004-09-10

Francis Parkman is one of those titans of history writing, with a stature equal to that of Gibbon, Carlyle, Prescott, Herodotus, Thucydides and Churchill. His tales of the first colonial wars thus assume a mythological status, and the main protagonists of this, the second part of the Library of America volume - Frontenac, Montcalm and Wolfe - are all larger than life.

The story of Count Frontenac is set against the era of Louis XIV and his drawn-out continental wars against William of Orange and the English. Frontenac proves an adroit military commander, dealing sharply with the Iroquois, and even more decisively with the English colonists of North America. One cannot help but have goosebumps reading Parkman's matchless prose as Count Frontenac departs Canada after his first spell as governor: "When [Frontenac] sailed for France, it was a day of rejoicing to more than half the merchants of Canada . . . but he left behind him an impression, very general among the people, that, if danger threatened the colony, Count Frontenac was the man for the hour."

The story of Wolfe and Montcalm, and the final collapse of New France in 1759, has assumed the same proportions as Hector and Achilles. This is largely, if not solely, due to Parkman's magisterial account of the fall of Quebec; indeed, so stark is his influence today that a modern biographer of Bouganville (Montcalm's deputy) simply - and, I think, very appropriately - related the Plains of Abraham saga by block-quoting Parkman.

Whether read as history or historiography, Parkman remains a giant.

Dated history, still highly readable........2004-06-20

Yes, Francis Parkman's use of 19th century venacular and grammar can be a little offputting to a 21st century reader. Also, his prudish Victorian attitudes about what is appropriate to be written can come across as silly. However, Parkman wrote history with the skill of a novelist. His narrative histories are among the best written works in all of American literature.

As others have noted, these books are not "politically correct" in their description of the American Indian. Francis Parkman did write with an agenda. In the late 19th century, Parkman was offended by what he saw as the popular romanticism of the American Indian. (A trend that has continued to this day with the American Indian routinely being presented as a "New Age Eagle scout with a bent for ecology" in both our popular culture and even in our schools.) Thus, Parkman attempted to write what he saw as the "historical" or "correct" portrayal of the American Indian- one that could be ruthless, barbaric, and extremely cruel and he backed up his opinion with numerous historical examples.

Parkman saw himself as a neutral narrator- a "I'm just writing down the facts" type of historian. And he does describe examples of European barbarism and their genocidal strategies against the natives to go along side of his "Injun massacre" portrayal of the American Indian. Yet Parkman wrote with obvious biases and his description of the American Indian tribes is too simplistic. Partly, this is because of Parkman's own racial prejudices, but also it is because of his limitations as a historian. Parkman's history is just a straight narrative with almost no analysis.

For instance, Parkman describes the Iroquois Confederacy's destruction of the Hurons in the late 1640's in terrific detail, but he doesn't really explain why the Iroquois were so determined to crush the Hurons. To Parkman, the answer was simple the Iroquois were primitive savages, who reveled in large scale murder and destruction, so there is no reason to analyze why they attacked and destroyed an ancient enemy. Yet modern research, using the same sources Parkman had access too, has shown that there were very logical reasons why the Hurons were targetted for destruction by the Iroquois- the Hurons because of their location near the entrance of the Ottawa River controlled the beaver trade from the upper Great Lakes and the Iroquois wanted that plum for themselves because in order to survive in the world of the Europeans tribes needed something to bargain with and beaver pelts were that something. Parkman because of his prejudices just could not see Indian tribes being that rational in their decisions to go to war.

Time has definitely exposed Parkman's limitations as a historian. Yet his two volume history of England and France in North America still remains extremely readable and entertaining- his description of entering an Algonquin wigwam is a perfect example of his talent as a master narrator.

[Also, it's pretty sad to see Robert Gould Shaw, a kinsman of Parkman's and to whom the first book of this history was dedicated too, being referred to as "the guy" who Matthew Broderick played in the movie "Glory."]

Massive work on France in North America.......2004-04-27

Francis Parkman was apparently a real workhorse, and something of a fixture in Boston society also. The first book of this series is dedicated to (among others) the guy played by Matthew Broderick in the movie Glory of some years ago. The four books reprinted here represent a century or so of the history of New France. The work as a whole is somewhat deceptively titled "France and England in North America" when the focus of the work is pretty much exclusively on New France.

There are really four separate books here. "Pioneers of France in the New World" is divided into two portions. One tells the story of the short-lived French settlement in Florida, the other part recounts the work of Samuel de Champlain in what became known as Canada, and recounts the fateful decision of Champlain to take the side of the local Huron Indians against their perrenial enemies, the Iroqouis. "The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century" recounts the activities of that sect in their missions which tried without much success to convert the various tribes to Catholicism. "LaSalle and the Discovery of the Great West" tells the story of that individual, and his exploration of the Mississippi valley, the Great Lakes, and Texas, where he was killed, and also includes an account of the travels of Marquette and Joliet, discoverers of the Mississippi river. "The Old Regime in Canada" is more of a description of the colony than an account of events in it, though in the early pages of the work, there is an account of various incidents in the era just after the previous volume. Most of the book contains a description of society, culture, government, church, and economy in the late 17th century, though, and that's the focus of the work.

This is a justly famous work, though Parkman doesn't age as well as you might imagine. He uses strange usages of various words, with somewhat interesting grammar at times, also. The view of the Indians is particularly awkward, and very politically incorrect. He repeatedly refers to them as "savages" for instance, and has little use for their religious beliefs or culture. His view of Catholicism is also characteristically negative, which isn't a surprise in that he wrote in 19th century New England.

Given the clumsy language and the interesting viewpoints, I believe this book is anyway very valuable, and I enjoyed it. There is the issue of it being 1500+ pages, so I wouldn't recommend this book to the faint of heart. Given that this is only the first of two volumes, and that the second one is 100 pages longer, this is a considerable investment of time, even for the prodigious reader.

A Titanic Achievement.......2002-02-21

This multi-volume edition of Parkman's magnum opus might appear initially daunting, as it covers more than 1,200 pages of material. Suffice it say, however, that the rewards are entirely worth the effort of fording your way through this majestic work.

Parkman triumphed over numerous personal disabilities (extremely poor eyesight and recurring pain in his limbs), to produce some of the most important and transcendent histories of the 19th century, works that secured him a place in the American Pantheon, beside Prescott and Bancroft. He has been interpreted both as an example of literary Romanticism by some, and as a supreme pessimist by others. His objective as an historian was to "while scrupulously and rigorously adhering to the truth of facts, to animate them with the life of the past, and, so far as might be, clothe the skeleton with flesh." This notion is reflected repeatedly throughout these volumes. His style is highly descriptive, borrowing as it does from his numerous treks to the sites he writes of. The Jesuits, trappers, governors, nuns and explorers he depicts come across as flesh-and blood, breathing, human beings, engaged in real activities. He has little place for abstraction, and never dwells overlong on minutiae. The ramifications of particular pacts or treaties, for instance, are subordinate to actual events and places. When he takes the reader into an Indian log-house, he/she can practically taste the smoke as it permeates the air.

When it comes to Native Americans, Parkman is far from sentimental. In fact, he bridled at the notion, common in 19th Century Romanticism (particularly Rousseau and even more conspicuously in Chateaubriand's ), of the Indian as noble savage. Parkman's earlier book on the Oregon Trail stemmed in part from his experiences amongst the Sioux on the Western Plains. The Indians depicted in these pages are, for the most part, more savage than noble. The Iroquois are especially ferocious in their raiding parties and in their methods of reprisal. Those who fell victim to their wrath were in for days and nights of unspeakable torture. Parkman describes these scenes almost too vividly. But as he himself would note,
"Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time." There are some academics that would argue that Parkman is not as objective as he would like us to think. He has a fairly consistent Protestant, Bostonian, Brahmin bias as regarding Catholicism, for instance. His view of Native Americans is hardly what could be termed politically correct. However one may feel about his viewpoint, one can not dismiss his power of depiction, or the scope of his genius and enterprise. When taking into account the fact that he produced volume upon volume of history, under the most debilitating circumstances, there can be no denying that he qualifies, as perhaps no one else, as "The American Gibbon." For the reader who wants to relive history at its most vivid, Parkman provides the goods. He paints in realistic detail the struggles, adventures and misadventures, the faith and foibles, great tribulations and monumental victories of an exceedingly noteworthy cast of characters. There are the infinitely stoical, but often-scheming Jesuits. There is the monomaniacal, driven, but honest-dealing and ultimately tragic figure of LaSalle. Champlain is another noteworthy figure, truly heroic in stature. The most heroic figure, however, may after all be Parkman himself. Shaped as he was by the notions of greatness fostered by such writers as Carlyle, it was a state he strove consciously to achieve. This collection, along with others in the Modern Library series, indicates that he achieved his goal. Thanks to The Modern Library for making authors such as Parkman accessible once more.

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
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Distinguished by Francis Parkman’s pictorial style, The Jesuits in North America opens with the arrival of French missionaries in Canada in 1632. The stage is set for the aggravation of old rivalries between the Huron and the Iroquois Indians. The Jesuits try to ensure the loyalty of the Hurons, suppliers of fur to the French, but find them resistant to religious conversion. The Iroquois, even more resistant, add the French to their list of enemies. Other factions enlist on one side or the other—French soldiers and anti-Catholic English, for example—but the dramatic pulse of Parkman’s narrative is provided by the Jesuits earnestly matriculating among the Indians, undergoing great hardship and occasionally embracing martyrdom.

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Eight Algonquins, in one of those fits of desperate valor which sometimes occur in Indians, entered at midnight a camp where thirty or forty Iroquois warriors were buried in sleep, and with quick, sharp blows of their tomahawks began to brain them as they lay. They killed ten of them on the spot, and wounded many more. The rest, panic-stricken and bewildered by the surprise and the thick darkness, fled into the forest, leaving all they had in the hands of the victors, including a number of Algonquin captives, of whom one had been unwittingly killed by his countrymen in the confusion.

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I can not say enough good about this work.......2006-09-10

It is always distressing when the greatest of works somehow go unnoticed in present history when this series came out Francis Parkman was at the zenith of his paving the road for all the lesser historians which infest the world today.
My reason for finding Parkman was his mention in Theodore Roosevelt's historical work, The Winning of the West, and as good as Roosevelt is....Francis Parkman is twice the historian.
Parkman reveals in this work the first world war in history which was the 7 Years War along with the French and Indian War in America. These events in the struggle for Canada, the Ohio and Europe were the wars which shape the world yet today.
Canada in being formed as a Jesuit outpost which with the French opened genocidal war on Americans to win the continent is a shock today. Parkman describes the butchery of the Great Lakes Indian tribes, so much to the actual fact they ate people and in the defeat of Fort William Henry made American mothers eat their own children in Montreal much to the disgust of the French officers who could do nothing to stop it as the French needed their Indian allies.
In this history you will feel the horror which formed America, heroic soldiers and officers serving while deathly ill and in the final chapters one sees the French Montcalm and the English Wolfe dying in the battle of Quebec, a small affair, but one which transferred half the world from France to England.
In Parkman's work, you will see the Americans changing from colonists, to learning liberty and galvanized into warriors who all the empires from England, French, Spain and Indian would seek to destroy, but in that firefight men would appear who would later become Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Gen. Schulyer.
Parkman's closing comments are the most fitting. There are few who are fit for freedom. Most will loose it and the rest will corrupt it. No more true of phrase from 1890 can enter upon the stage today of the world from the mideast to America in showing what this genius of history recorded.
I would have given this series 50 stars if possible and it is the kind of work that every student should be required reading. I no longer read "modern histories" as they are all corrupted and search instead of listings offered here on Amazon like Bishop James Ussher's Annals of the World, Theodore Roosevelt's Winning of the West, Patton's World War II Memoirs, Sherman's Civil War Memoirs as these are the real history.
If this series is too much reading to start with, Try Parkman's Oregon Trail as it is a delightful read untainted by spin doctors or Hollywood nonsense.
Buy this book!

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Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Guide
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This beautiful book is a photographic guide to the birds of Madagascar--260 species, including 108 that are endemic to the island. The book details the plumages, vocalizations, habitat and behavior, range, status, and habitat zones of each species. "Where to watch" advice and a gazetteer to birdwatching locations provide invaluable information for visitors planning to see the avifauna of Malagasy.

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