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Crissi Blair

Bedtime Stories for Young Brains - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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childlit book preschool development

shared by Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • all pediatric primary care should include literacy promotion, starting at birth
  • how important it is to read to even very young children
  • “When we show them a video of a story, do we short circuit that process a little?” he asked. “Are we taking that job away from them? They’re not having to imagine the story; it’s just being fed to them.”
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  • it is important that young children hear language, and that they need to hear it from people, not from screens.
  • serious disparities in how much language children hear
  • reading picture books with young children may mean that they hear more words, while at the same time, their brains practice creating the images associated with those words
  • Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15
     
    Research into the benefits, indeed the necessity, of reading to young children.
Crissi Blair

Jake Green photographs emerging children's illustrators in his book, The Bookmaker's St... - 4 views

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emerging illustrators childlit picturebook illustration book

shared by Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Crissi Blair on 22 Aug 15
     
    A book is coming, featuring the up and coming picture book illustrators, some have already had quite a measure of success (Herve Tullet, Chris Haughton) others I've not heard of before but will be checking out their books asap.
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