9780060186395
Proust and the squid; the story and science of the reading brain.
Wolf, Maryanne.
Harper
2007
308 pages
$25.95
Hardcover
QP408
Many scholars believe that humans are hard-wired for language, but
no one, points out Wolf (child development, Tufts U.), believes that
about reading and writing. The act of reading is not natural, she
argues, either for a child or in the evolution of the brain's
capacity to learn. She loves it anyway, and here shares her knowledge
and joy at learning to read in both evolutionary and development
contexts; she also explores reasons that some people cannot learn to
read. By the way, Proust says they were just friends; the squid is not
commenting.
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