Sharing Picturebooks In The Classroom
I did my fair share of teaching with pictures when I was a high school language teacher. I love this approach partly, I’m guessing, because I’m a visual learner myself. But there is one big problem...
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A Stack Of Printed Pages… Held Together By A Lover
A number of questions are starting to get boring. The first is ‘What does it mean to be human?’ Seriously, didn’t we work that one out with the Human Genome Project? For those of us making storybook...
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Kids with parents who read, who buy or take books out of the library for their kids, and who then set time aside in their kids’ daily schedule for reading, tend to read the most. – Why Don’t Teens Read...
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Robots Reading To Children
The Jibo Family Robot While much is being said about digital stories which supposedly get between the adult and the parent, I wonder what might be said about this little device: a ‘family robot’ which...
View ArticleIn Which Jerry Griswold Makes Some Great Points
Speaking of The War Between Print And Digital, which you’ll definitely have noticed if you’re in book app world, Griswold points out that the competition between the two types of media is a false...
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How Apps Are Influencing Printed Books
from Christine VanDeVelde for The Chicago Tribune I’ve noticed from my feed — due to the publishing professionals I follow — that editors are on the look out for ‘concept picture books’, and meta...
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