Gurdon, Meghan Cox
Summary: Examines how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parent GurdonRajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "We have always known that reading aloud is an important way to bond with your baby and develop language skills. Now neuroscience research is showing us the long-term benefit that reading aloud has for children-all the way into adulthood. Author Rekha S.Rajan was part of current research that shows individuals who were read to more frequently as children had a measurably healthier brain in old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2023
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Summary: Champions the lifelong benefits of reading aloud to children and offers book lists, strategies, and tools parents can use to form deep and lasting connections with their kids.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372.45 MACOzma, Alice.
Summary: Named for two literary characters ("Alice" from Lewis Carroll and "Ozma" from L. Frank Baum), the author is the daughter of a Philadelphia-area elementary school librarian. Father and daughter embarked on a streak of reading-out-loud sessions every night before bed as Ozma was growing up--a "streak" that would continue for eight years straight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OZMA, ALICA OZMTrelease, Jim
Summary: Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook, updated and revised by education specialist Cyndi Giorgis, discusses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PENGUIN BOOKS 2019
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Summary: Cat tries to read the story of Little Red Riding Hood aloud, but Dog keeps interrupting with silly questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FOXSparks, Nicholas.
Summary: In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1996
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Summary: Scenes from the past and a collection of intensely personal letters tell the story of a long married couple now confined to a nursing home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.6 TREAllyn, Pam.
Summary: In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for children to begin to reflectively engage with and understand the world around them. Not only can parents entertain their child and convey the beauty of language through books, they can also share their values and create lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.58 ALLCodell, Esmé Raji
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 028.5 CODSummary: Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REASummary: When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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Summary: "The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children--revised and updated. Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. It has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372.45 TRESummary: Recently re-translated by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Beowulf has caused a sensation in both the U.S. and the U.K. In this program, NewsHour correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth speaks with Heaney about his attraction to that epic poem, the probable background of the bard who created the original, similarities between Old English and bits of Anglo-Saxon that still crop up in rural Ireland, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Spalding Gray performs a monologue that mostly recounts his trip to Southeast Asia to create the role of the U.S. Ambassador's aide in the 1984 Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2013