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disrupting conversation with, 75–76
effect of cell phone interruptions during child-parent time, 198
and joint attention phenomenon, 82–83, 198
and parenting, 43–46
reading aloud from tablets, 199
turning off for read-aloud time, 198, 204
The Snowy Day (Keats), 158–59
social competence, 84–86
social-emotional effects of fiction versus nonfiction, 187, 248n187
The Social Life of Books (Williams), 30
social media usage, 42, 204
Solomon Crocodile (Rayner), 84–85
sound awareness, 107–8, 152–53
Stanford University study of low-income families’ child-directed words, 99
Stanley, Diane, 118–21
Steig, William, 54, 83
Steiner-Adair, Catherine, 44–45, 82–83
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 46, 55, 159
Stoker, Bram, 112–15
The Story about Ping (Flack), xvii
The Story of Babar (de Brunhoff), 91–94, 98, 102
storytelling, 20, 21–26, 29. See also children’s books
stress
alleviating traumatized dogs’ stress by reading to them, 190–91
children learn to deal with, 80–81
of infants whose parent isn’t paying attention, 83
from loneliness, 189
from parent’s military deployment, 58–61
Struwwelpeter (Hoffman), 164
sutas (Indian storytellers), 24
Swift, Adam, 14–15
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Steig), 54
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (Potter), 107
The Tales of Mother Goose (Perrault), 145–47
Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine, 75, 99–100
Tatar, Maria, 39, 137
technoference, 43–45, 75–76
technology
attention span for reading books versus, 121–22
babies’ screen time, 74–75
benefits from, 41–42
capability of, xiii
costs of adaptation to, xiv–xv, 12–13, 42–46
downloading classics from Project Gutenberg website, 173
effect on families, 41–43, 44–46
in Goodnight iPad, 41, 45
and joint attention phenomenon, 82–83, 198
podcasts, 36, 37, 132–33
and rates of loneliness, 188
read-aloud time for military parents, 57–61
as replacement for interaction with adults, 74–75
screen time effects, 10, 13–14, 38–39
screen time per day, xiv–xv, 10, 42, 209, 224n10
social media usage, 42, 204
sound system for babies in incubators, 50–51
technoference, 43–45, 75–76
as uncontrolled experiment, 83–84
unhappiness: Internet correlation, 42, 43
See also fMRI; smartphones and tablets; videos; voice recordings
teenagers
benefits of reading, xiv
functional illiteracy of, 17, 26, 226n17
and literature as taught in school, 131–35
seeing parents as fallible, 211–12
read-aloud time for, 130–35
screen time per day, 10, 42, 224n10
See also children
Tending the Heart of Virtue (Guroian), 138
Tenggren, Gustaf, 159
theory of mind, 84–86
There’s a Mystery There (Sendak), 165
“three mothers and an eggplant” fable, 104–5
Through the Looking Glass, “Jabberwocky” (Carroll), 125–26
The Tinderbox (retold by Mitchell), 101
Tolkien, J. R. R., 56
“totalitarianism” of movies, 128–29
Touch the Art board-book series (Guglielmo and Appel), 160
traditions, 151–56
Travers, P. L., 155
Treasure Island (Stevenson), 46, 55, 126–28, 159
Trelease, Jim, 110, 240n110
Turtles All the Way Down (Green), 181
Twain, Mark, 169, 246n169
Twenge, Jean, 42
The Underneath (Appelt), 66
United Service Organization (USO), 60
United Through Reading (UTR), 59, 60–61
University of California study of domestic alienation, 45
University of Delaware study of effect of cell phone interruptions on child-parent time, 198
University of Kansas study of language skill development of children in word-rich versus word-poor homes, 96–97, 99
University of Liverpool study of reading to Alzheimers patients, 187–88
University of Montreal study of babies’ recognition of their mother’s voices, 49
University of Sussex study of children learning vocabulary from books, 102–4
University of Virginia study of DVD claiming to teach vocabulary to infants, 74–75
The Untold Story of the Talking Book (Rubery), 35
The Uses of Enchantment (Bettelheim), 154
USO (United Service Organization), 60
UTR (United Through Reading), 59, 60–61
Utterly Lovely One (Murphy), 47
A Velocity of Being (Popova and Bedrick), 141
videos
babies’ inability to learn from, 74–75
brain’s response to, 10–14
incarcerated mothers, 61–62
replacing story time, 18
separation anxiety alleviated with, 57–61
virtuous behavior circle, 121–23
visual imagery network, 12
visual perception network, 12
vocabulary development, 74–75, 92–95, 97–100, 102–5, 109–12
voice recordings
audiobooks, 35–38, 131
Edison’s invention of, 34–35Shame associated with listening , 36, 129–30, 148, 229n36, 242n129
Vygotsky, Lev, 79
Wall Street Journal children’s book critic position, xix
Wang, Holman and Jack, 156–57, 167
Weisgard, Leonard, 159
Wells, Rosemary, 17
Wells, Victoria, 189–91
West African storytellers (griots), 24
Wiesner, David, 163
Wilde, Oscar, 55
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 32–33, 55, 169–70
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult (Handy), 53–54
Wilkin, Eloise, 159
Williams, Abigail, 30
Williams, Garth, 159
The Wind in the Willows audiobook (Grahame), 37
Winnie-the-Pooh audiobook (Milne), 37
Wolf, Maryanne, 96, 131, 152
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken), 55
Woodson, Jacqueline, 138
Woolf, Virginia, xv
Wordsworth, William, 54
World War I blinded veterans, 35
Wyeth, N. C., 159
Yale University study of life expectancy and reading, 187
Young Titan (Sheldon), 178
Zeanah, Charles H., 73
Zelinsky, Paul O., 162–63
About the Author
MEGHAN COX GURDON is an essayist, book critic, and former foreign correspondent who has been the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book reviewer since 2005. Her work has appeared widely, in publications such as the Washington Examiner, the Daily Telegraph, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and National Review. A graduate of Bowdoin College, she lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Hugo Gurdon, and their five children.
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