Tag
picture books
Books for Kids
The Wordless Picture Book and an Eighteen-Month-Old
What a toddler in a small flat in Lower Manhattan does with a book that does not contain any words.
Books for Kids
The Bilingual Picture Book in a Spanish-English Household
What three years of reading in two languages did, and did not do, for one four-year-old in San Antonio.
Books for Kids
The Picture Books We Keep When We Cull
On the small ceremony of clearing a child's bookshelf at age seven, and the eleven books that stayed.
Family Rituals
The Bedtime Canon at Four
The seventeen books a Brooklyn family read aloud night after night to a four-year-old, and what remained when the year was over.
Books for Kids
What Survives a Hundred Readings: A List of Seven
Seven picture books that lasted the long stretch of a child's nightly attention, drawn from one family's shelf in Portland, Maine.