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Why Picture Books Are Important by Dan Santat
Why Picture Books Are Important by Dan Santat Picture books represent a milestone of understanding. They represent the starting point of a lifelong journey towards expressing yourself. When a child...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Pat Mora
Why Picture Books Are Important by Pat Mora “Tell me a story.” “Cúentame un cuento.” In many languages in our diverse country, people of all ages savor the rhythm and repetition of listening to a...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Sean Qualls
Why Picture Books Are Important by Sean Qualls I’m not sure when I first read Ezra Jack Keats’ A Snowy Day or John Steptoe’s Stevie. I’m not sure that I even read them as a child or that they were...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by E.B. Lewis
Why Picture Books Are Important by E.B. Lewis Children’s books are essential for for pre-learning and developing skills of imagination and creativity. These skills are fundamental for cognitive and...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Don Tate
Why Picture Books Are Important by Don Tate If a picture is worth a thousand words, picture this: My 2-year-old son and I curled up on a chair. He sits on my lap as we read the picture book,...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Jean Reidy
Why Picture Books Are Important by Jean Reidy Have you ever seen kids with picture books they love? They carry them around like security blankets. They chew on them. They sleep with them. They wake...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Tara Lazar
Why Picture Books Are Important by Tara Lazar Picture books are important because they remind us that anything is possible. There are no boundaries in picture books, no walls, no restrictions....
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Margie Palatini
Why Picture Books Are Important by Margie Palatini When I was four, I fell in love with my hero. He wasn’t faster than a speeding bullet. Not the biggest. Nor the strongest. Not the best looking of...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Joyce Wan
Why Picture Books Are Important by Joyce Wan When I was young, my mom could not speak English but she took me to the library every week without fail. Although she was unable to read to me, picture...
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Why Picture Books Are Important by Brett Helquist
Why Picture Books Are Important by Brett Helquist Why are picture books important? I’d like to take that a little further and ask: Why are pictures in books important? I can only answer this question...
View ArticleCelebrate 2013 Picture Book Month!
Friends: I am sooo excited about Picture Book Month this year. We have confirmed David Adler, Dianna Aston, Rick Anderson, Larry Dane Brimner, Julie Danielson, Carmen Agra Deedy, Tomie dePaola, Rebecca...
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“There are two ways to educate the heart: life experience, and stories about life experience,” said children’s lit champion and read-aloud activist Jim Trelease. Great picture books do educate the...
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The importance of picture books in young children’s lives is one of great pillars of their cognitive development. Here’s why: Picture books open a safe, beautiful path to other worlds, when read and...
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I didn’t read much as a child. Most of my time was spent outdoors doing “boy” things – riding my bike, playing baseball in the front yard with my friends, drawing the big circle in the dirt to shoot...
View ArticleWhy Picture Books Are Important by Dianna Hutts Aston
Recently, I was speaking at an elementary school, focusing on my non-fiction science series with Chronicle Books. After one presentation, two teachers called me aside privately. One said, “We just...
View ArticleWhy Picture Books Are Important by Wendell Minor
I like to refer to myself as a recovering dyslexic. As a child, my alphabet of choice was the three basic shapes and the three primary colors. From these elements, all pictures flow. Words paint...
View ArticleWhy Picture Books Are Important by Jesse Klausmeier
Picture books are so important because they can play with the rules of traditional reading and change the role of the reader. As a child, my family kept a steady stream of picture books coming through...
View ArticleWhy Picture Books Are Important by Jannie Ho
I immigrated to the US when I was a young child. English was not my first language. I had to be in a special reading group to catch up and I was quite embarrassed by it. But my parents, who also did...
View ArticleWhy Picture Books Are Important by Rob Scotton
I love picture books, always have and always will. From the moment I picked up a certain, well-thumbed book in the ‘reading corner’ of my classroom at primary school at age 6, I have been fascinated...
View ArticleWhy Picture Books Are Important by Hazel G. Mitchell
Before a child even knows about ABCs or reading, they are learning to read pictures. That’s what we are doing from the moment we open our eyes – learning a visual language – the language of our...
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