Literacy, families and learning

I did a post on children's picture books for Christmas in 2008 as part of my 'Key Themes in Literature' series ( here ), which ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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