Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, by Patricia Hruby Powell, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Shackleton’s Journey and The Wolves of Currumpaw, by William Grill
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building, by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by James E. Ransome
Strong Man: The Story of Charles Atlas, by Meghan McCarthy
Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes, by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Emily Sutton
Wise Guy: The Life and Philosophy of Socrates, by M. D. Usher, illustrated by William Bramhall
Strong Feelings
Brave Martha, by Margot Apple
The Funeral, by Matt James
Gorilla, by Anthony Browne
Grumpy Bird, by Jeremy Tankard
Jabari Jumps, by Gaia Cornwall
Maybe a Bear Ate It!, by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley
The Terrible Plop, by Ursula Dubosarsky, illustrated by Andrew Joyner
Witty Wordplay
The Alphabet Thief, by Bill Richardson, illustrated by Roxana Bikadoroff
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, by Margaret Atwood, illustrated by Dušan Petričić
Betty’s Burgled Bakery, by Travis Nichols
Mirror Mirror, by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Jośee Masse
Mom and Dad Are Palindromes, by Mark Shulman, illustrated by Adam McCauley
Stegothesaurus, by Bridget Heos, illustrated by T. L. McBeth
Take Away the A and Where’s the Baboon?, by Michaël Escoffier, illustrated by Kris di Giacamo
Wordless Picture Books
The Chicken Thief and Fox and Hen Together, by Béatrice Rodriguez
The Farmer and the Clown, by Marla Frazee
The Hero of Little Street, by Gregory Rogers
Ice, by Arthur Geisert
Journey and Quest and Return, by Aaron Becker
The Red Book and Red Again, by Barbara Lehman
Wave, by Suzy Lee
FOR OLDER LISTENERS
Classic Stories
“The Body Snatcher,” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Green Sealing Wax,” by Colette
“The Ice Maiden,” by Hans Christian Andersen
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” by Washington Irving
“The Lumber Room,” by Saki
“The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant
A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe
“To Build a Fire,” by Jack London
Classic Novels and Novellas
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
The Code of the Woosters, by P. G. Wodehouse
The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Emma, by Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
True Grit, by Charles Portis
Index
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Abel’s Island (Steig), 54
Abubakar, Mohammed Kabir, 49, 51, 52, 199
A Child’s Book of Art: Great Pictures, First Words (Micklethwait), 161–62
Adams, Jennifer, 156
adoptive parents, 87–89
adults
addiction to digital devices, 42–43
benefits of reading, xiv
children reading to their parents, 178–79
illiteracy of, 26, 35
reading groups for the elderly, 182–88
reconnecting with their childhood books, 53–54
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, bowdlerized edition), 169, 246n169
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain, bowdlerized edition), 169, 246n169
aesthetic senses, 165–68
Ahlberg, Allan, 67–69
Ahlberg, Janet, 67–69
Aiken, Joan, 55
Alberti, Leon Battista, 158
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 117–18
Alter, Adam, 42–43, 122, 204
Alzheimer’s disease and read-aloud time, 187–88
The Amazing Bone (Steig), 83
Ambrose (Milanese bishop), 25
American Academy of Pediatrics, 9, 83–84
American Library Association, 169
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), 189–91
Andrew’s Loose Tooth (Munsch), 11
Antyllus, 191–92
Appel, Julie, 160
Appelt, Kathi, 66
Around the World with Ant and Bee (Banner), 101
“The Arrow and the Song” (Longfellow), 185–86
art history books, 161–63
Art Up Close (d’Harcourt), 161–62
ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), 189–91
attention span and technology effect, 121–23
audiobooks, 35–38, 131
auditory discrimination, 107–8, 152–53
Augustine of Hippo, 25
Aunt Mary’s Storybook, 61–62
La Aurora (Cuban newspaper), 33–34
Austen, Jane, 30, 167
Australian Aboriginal picture books, 162
Babar series, 91–94, 98, 238n91
babies
brain activation in premature babies, 49–50, 52–53, 232n50
gaze shifting, 78–79, 82–84
learning English, 70–75, 76–79, 234n71
learning through social relationships, 83–84
paying attention to their world, 69–70
Peek-a-Boo! about a day in the life of, 67–69
raised without interaction with adults, 73
reading aloud to, xvii–xviii, 18, 48, 49–53
reading to premature babies, 48–49, 50–53, 232n50
screen time for learning, 74–75
and videos claiming to teach vocabulary, 74–75
in the womb, 49, 70–71, 134–35, 199
See also children; teenagers
Baby-Lit books (Adams), 156
A Baby Sister for Frances (Hoban), 54–55
Bacon, Francis, 161
Baker, Russell, 150
Baldwin, James, 191
Banner, Angela, 101
“the Bard” tournament, 27–29
The Barefoot Lawyer (Chen), 143
Barnett, Mac, 107
Bavishi, Avni, 187
bedtime stories. See read-aloud time
Beowulf (retold by Morpurgo), 149
Berenstain, Jan, xvi–xvii
Berenstain, Stan, xvi–xvii
Bettelheim, Bruno, 147, 154
Bewitched (TV series), 171–72
Bierman, Karen, 80–81
The Big Disconnect (Steiner-Adair), 44–45
The Big Honey Hunt (Berenstain and Berenstain), xvi–xvii
birds learning to sing, 72
blinded veterans of World War I, 35
books, audio, 35–38, 131
books as inheritance of every child, 148–51, 157–58
Bowdler, Thomas, 168–69
Boy (Dahl), 135–36
Bradbury, Ray, 131–32, 170–71
brain
activating in premature babies, 49–50, 52–53, 232n50
activity in children, 8–9
cumulative development, 15–17, 225n16, 226n17
effect of cognitive engagement, 187
intense formation in early years, 9, 14, 69
See also fMRI
Brown, Margaret Wise, 1–3, 151–52, 159
Brown, Stuie, 61–62
Bruegel, Pieter the Elder, 163, 164
de Brunhoff, Jean, 91–94
de Brunhoff, Laurent, 91, 238n91
Bryan, Natasha, 102–4
The Bunny Book (Scarry),
159
Burgess, Thornton, 88
Burton, LeVar, 200
Burton, Virginia Lee, 107
Bush, Barbara, 178–79
Bush, George H. W., 178–79
Bush, Neil, 178–79
Carroll, Lewis, 117–18, 125–26
Cash, Hilarie, 46
cerebellum, 11–12
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl), 55
chatelaine metaphor, 94–95
Chen Guangcheng, 142–44
Chen Jiang Hong, 162
children
aesthetic senses development, 165–68
age differences and book choices, 205
“the Bard” tournament, 27–29
benefits of read-aloud time, xiii–xiv, xv, 9–10, 11–13, 14–17
books as inheritance of, 148–51, 157–58
brain development stimulated when listening, 7–8, 11–14
comfort from routines and structure, 87–89, 100–101, 102
connecting to art, 160–61, 166
conversations with, 98–99, 104–8, 166, 172
and cultural wisdom, 151–55, 157–58, 161–62, 167–71
empathy development, 84–86
executive function skill development, 80–82, 187
habits with favorite books, 101
interacting with texts, 1–3
interactive and dialogic reading, 1–3, 92–93, 105–8, 112, 197, 241n112
mapping a language, 71, 102–4
and nursery rhymes and songs, 151–53
parents as perfect, 211
raised without interaction with adults, 73
receptive vocabulary, 109–10, 125–26, 240n110
safety of repetition and structure, 87–89, 100–101
screen time effects, 10, 13–14, 38–39
screen time per day, xiv–xv, 10, 209, 224n10
separation anxiety, 58–59, 61
talking toys versus parents, 74–75
and technoference, 43–45, 75–76
wanting the same book read multiple times, 100–104, 115, 207, 214
wider perspective from read-aloud time, 148–51, 173–76, 244n147
See also babies; families; schools; teenagers
children’s books
age differences and book choices, 205
child’s brain activity while listening, 9–10
current moral objections to past attitudes, 167–68
discussing all aspects of, 106–7
effect of video vs., 11–14
and emotional awareness, 84–85
fables, 155–56
folk and fairy tales, 145–48, 153–56
intensifying children’s emotional awareness, 84–85
myths and legends, 155
nursery rhymes and songs, 151–53
as opportunity to talk about non-routine things and events, 99–100
providing clear focus for attention, 81, 92
recognizing the importance of the past, 148–51, 167–71, 246n168
shock effects of beauty and horror, 135–38
and vocabulary development, 92–95, 98–100, 102–4, 215
See also classics; picture books
children’s bookstore, Oakley, Cincinnati, 4–6
A Child’s History of the World (Hillyer), 174–75
China’s Cultural Revolution, 142–43
Chinese picture books, 162
Christiansen, Morten, 71, 72, 188
Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis), 55
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center research with MRI, 3–4, 11–14, 223n4
classics
overview, 157–58
adult literature, 156–57
alterations to, 156–57, 169–72, 174–75
Cozy Classics series (Wang and Wang), 156–57, 167
fairy tales, 146–47, 148–49
movies made from, 128–29
on Project Gutenberg website, 173
rotating in reading list, 55–56, 143–44
close looking, 165–66
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 139
Collins, Suzanne, 60
Colvin, Geoff, 47
Confessions (Augustine), 25
Cortes, Richard, 86–87
Cozy Classics series (Wang and Wang), 156–57, 167
Cross, Gillian, 22–23, 56
Cuban cigar factory lectors/readings, 33–34, 142
cultural literacy, 151–55, 157–58, 161–62, 167–71
cumulative development, 15–17, 225n16, 226n17
Dahl, Roald, 55, 135–37
Dante, 25
David Wiesner and the Art of Wordless Storytelling (Kahng, Keiter, and Roeder), 163
Davis, Joan, 185
day care center anti-phone sign, 43–44
DeJong, Meindert, 55
DePaola, Amelia, 209–10
Dewdney, Anna, 218
d’Harcourt, Claire, 161–62
dialogic and interactive reading, 1–3, 92–93, 105–8, 112, 197, 241n112
Diamond, Donna, 85–86
DiCamillo, Kate, xiii, 47, 124
Dickens, Charles, 29–31, 228n31
Dickinson, David, 81
Dior, Christian, 1
dogs, reading to, 188–91
Dolan, Timothy, 131–32
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 29
domestic alienation, 45
Dominic (Steig), 54
Doonan, Jane, 165–66
Douglass, Frederick, 140
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), xvi–xvii
Dracula (Stoker’s original), 112–15
“Droyd, Ann,” 41
“The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3” (University of Kansas), 96–97
Eastman, P. D., 101–2
Edison, Thomas, 34–35
Edmonds, Walter, 167–68
Einstein, Albert, 147, 179
emotions
children’s ability to regulate, 80–82
connection during read-aloud time, 46–48
Dickens invoking, 29, 30–31
language as a regulator of, 79, 80–82
loneliness, 188
opportunities in seven minutes of reading, 94
self-determination theory, 211
separation anxiety, 58–59, 61
social-emotional effects of fiction versus nonfiction, 187, 248n187
time investment for emotional bonds, 62–63, 233n63
toddler’s recognition of theory of mind, 84–86
unhappiness: Internet correlation, 42, 43
using wordless picture books to teach about, 158
while reading books, xviii
The Emperor’s New Clothes (retold by Burton), 107
Enchanted Hunters (Tartar), 137
The English Patient (Ondaatje), 177, 180
English skills
in children from word-rich vs. word-poor families, 96–97, 99
cognitive advantage of well-read-to children, 8
reading aloud as an expression of writing, 24–26
and reading well versus poorly, 30
and school readiness, 16–18, 225n16
vocabulary, 74–75, 92–95, 97–100, 102–5, 109–12, 215
Evans, Dilys, 85
executive function skill development, 80–82, 187
expressive vocabulary, 81, 110, 125–26
fables, 155–56
Fagin, Helen, 141–42
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 131–32, 170–71
fairy tales, 145–48, 153–56
families
effect of using technology, 41–43, 44–46
Kirke family adapts to military deployment, 59–60
low-income families’ use of child-directed words, 99
picture books as adhesive for, 53–55, 76–79, 80
Rashid family reading experiment, 195–97, 212–15
reading habits surveys, 18
separation anxiety alleviated with videos, 57–61
sharing comic line
s from books, 54–55, 57
sharing read-aloud time, 46–48, 53, 54–57, 65–66, 192–93
time investment for emotional bonds, 62–63, 233n63
word-rich versus word-poor, 96–97, 99
See also parenting; read-aloud time
Family Reading Partnership slogan, 195
The Family Shakspeare [sic] (Bowdler), 168–69
Fatio, Louise, 55
The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien), 56–57
fiction, social-emotional effects of nonfiction vs., 187, 248n187
Fidler, Jane, 133–34
Field, Walter Taylor, 210–11
Fingerposts to Children’s Reading (Field), 210–11
The Fire Station (Munsch), 11
Flack, Marjorie, xvii
“Flight” (Lessing), 183–84
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging)
child’s experience of, 4, 7, 223n4
research on children, 4, 5, 7–8
research results, 8–9, 12–14
folk and fairy tales, 145–48, 153–56
Forbes, Ester, 135
foreign language, learning a, 70
Fortune (Stanley), 118–21
Fox, Mem, 47–48, 153
Fox, Nathan A., 73
Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer), 157–58
Fulton, Kate, 182–86
functional illiteracy of teenagers, 17, 26, 226n17
gaze shifting, 78–79, 82–84
Geisel, Theodor Seuss “Dr. Seuss,” xvi–xvii
Georgetown University study of effects of reading aloud to babies, 50–53
German Romantic style picture books, 162
Gilgamesh (Sumerian epic), 23
Ginzburg, Yevgenia, 140–41
Godsey, Michael, 132–33
Golden Age of Illustration, 159
Golders Green nursing home, 182–86
Goldilocks Effect, 14
Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, 105, 198
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 141–42
Goodnight iPad (“Droyd”), 41, 45
Goodnight Moon (Brown), 1–3, 151–52
Goodnight Moon time, 15. See also read-aloud time
Gospel of Matthew, 96
Go the F**k to Sleep (Cortes), 86–87
governments limiting access to books and information, 142–44
Gray, Elizabeth Janet, 173
Great Britain, 18, 35–39, 102–4, 106, 185
Greek text on amphora, 21
Greek storytellers (rhapsodes), 21–23, 24, 29
Green, John, 181
Green, Sam, 52–53
Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss), xvi–xvii
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 124
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Grimm and Grimm), 124
griots (West African storytellers), 24
Growing Up (Baker), 150
Guess How Much I Love You (McBratney), 47
Guglielmo, Amy, 160
Gurdon, Flora, 85–86, 101, 112–15, 171
Gurdon, Meghan Cox
audiobooks on long trips, 37
The Enchanted Hour Page 28
