Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Life Lessons in Picture Books

Psychology Today recently published this article, The Value of a Picture Book, about life lessons kids get from picture books. Nothing new here for most of us, but I really liked that the article has a couple of different approaches to the life lessons and how picture books embody them. Some books recommended include the quality as a part of the story, and some books bring out that quality as part of the experience of reading.

2 comments:

Keith Schoch said...

Thanks for this link! That's an interesting article (although, as you said, it's nothing new for those of us "in the know"). Still, I know of several teachers and blog readers who would love to see this. I plan to repost, and I'll be sure to give your site a shout out as the source!

Bethany Wiggins said...

Experience of reading is my big thing. I read with my kids... novels, picture books, non fiction... and they remember the stories, but mostly they remember how it felt to be together reading them.