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Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms In A Digital Age -- From Picture Books To EBooks And Everything In Between (2014)

by Jason Boog(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1476749795 (ISBN13: 9781476749792)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Touchstone

review 1: Boog sells you on his book right from the intro. Children whose parents read interactively with them are six to eight months ahead of other children, he tells us. Reading interactively will push your children's IQ up an amazing six points. And then he shares with us what research has shown is the best way to read with your kiddos.I can tell it's going to be a keeper, a book I share with parents and other librarians.
review 2: It's tempting to ponder what readers will get out of this book, since the kind of person who picks it up is likely to be someone like me or my wife: a voracious reader who wants to make sure they pass on that love to their child. But then they'll discover that they're already doing most of the stuff in the book!But I've actually gotten som... moree useful ideas out of it and some book titles we don't currently have, and I think it would be great for someone who wasn't a voracious reader but wanted their kid to be.The author also navigates the world of ebooks and apps fairly well (though the penalty of long lead times for books: he uses the then-current AAP recommendations rather than the more informed guidelines of late 2013), though his app recommendations should be vetted.My major complaint with the book is that it provides thirdhand view of most of the research (excluding the original paper about interactive reading and AAP guidelines). In other words, Lisa Guernsey's _Screen Time_ is a summary of numerous primary sources. In this book, he talks to Lisa Guernsey for a summary of her book. Now, Lisa Guernsey is a great person to talk to on the subject of apps and so forth, but the far-removed view allows for numerous passages like this, when he's talking to Caroline Knorr (also a good person to talk to): "...There are studies that show that developing those aural skills is great for kids ..." What studies are those, I wonder? If they're in the small bibliography, that's not clear from the body of the book. I don't doubt that there are such studies, but you're now seeing at least two levels of filtering and interpretation. less

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