Posted by Unknown | 2:30 PM

I wrote last week about some worrying trends with picture books and asked 'Are Picture Books Dying?' My post was motivated by my con...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:00 PM

A recent article by Julie Bosman in the New York Times (20th October) sounded a warning about the decline of the picture book.  While the pi...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:00 PM

I've written a number of times about creativity and divergent thinking and how easy it is to stifle both (for example here ). I've a...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:00 PM

Introduction I've written a number of times about comprehension on this blog (see previous posts here ) and recently published a monogra...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:52 AM

We all know that girls generally begin reading before boys and are more likely to become avid readers.  But does it matter how we try to get...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:21 PM

As I have argued in previous posts ( here & here ), we learn a great deal from literature. Literature brings great pleasure but it a...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:40 PM

This is another of my 'New Aussie Books' updates. There are so many great Australian books published each year that it isn't pos...

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