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It is not difficult to make the case that reading is one of the crowning achievements of the human race. Nor that its use transformed and continues to transform the world in which we live. You would think therefore that we would by now have mastered the means to teach […]

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I want my literary parents! But where are they?

In an interesting and thought-provoking blog for the Washington Post the invisibility of parents in children’s literature is lamented. The author argues that perhaps children’s literature needs a parent-lite approach to allow drama to unfold, and to create a dramatic space where children may be more clearly delineated as characters […]

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Studies show reading aloud to children increases vocabulary more than talking. If you’re a good reader, you’re smart. If you’re not, you’re not smart, at least not book smart anyway. That’s basically how todays culture views the skill of reading. So it’s not difficult to see why child psychologists want […]

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