Amazon: your kids are next
As the new season of X-Factor launched last Saturday, and Britain’s families gathered around their television sets, they were greeted with something new. It wasn’t the return of Sharon Osborne,… Read more »
Pediatricians prescribe books to kids in a new literacy program
When parents take their children to the doctor, they expect to hear the usual things: how the little tyke is progressing in terms of national percentiles for height, weight, shin-kicking,… Read more »
Bikers for Books reaches out to elementary school students
There’s a new face for literacy advocacy in central Michigan, and it’s a bit different from the staid librarians and other bookish types you might expect. Bikers for Books launched… Read more »
The Author and the Duchess
The UK’s Telegraph reported last week that the somewhat unlikely duo of James Patterson and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are teaming up for a literary campaign aimed at getting fathers to read… Read more »
Reading to four-year-old kids will help them in their teens, according to new study
New research presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting last weekend suggests that the brain is particularly sensitive and receptive to a stimulating environment at age four. “An early… Read more »
UK town adopts Dolly Parton model for child literacy
The BBC reported this week that the town of Bradford, England, will start an Imagination Library, following the lead of Rotherham and other towns in England and Scotland. Launched by… Read more »
When “Because it’s good for you” isn’t enough: Wisconsin library bribes parents to join 1,000-books-before-kindergarten program
Listen up all you lollygagging parents of toddlers out there. With all the cognitive research in, it’s time to start taking that bedtime story a little more seriously. Reading to… 2 / Read more »