Building Better Brains: Board Books and Thirty Million Words

Authors

  • Jarrett Dapier

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.15n2.18

Abstract

When our daughter was two, she gnawed half the cover off a board book version of Peggy Rathmann’s Goodnight, Gorilla. To her, it was a book good enough to eat. Our copy—tattered, weathered, gnawed—remains on our bookshelf. To my wife and me, the mangled little thing is a treasured possession.

Author Biography

Jarrett Dapier

Jarrett Dapier is a former research coordinator at the Thirty Million Words Initiative at the University of Chicago. He received the 2016 American Library Association John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award for his research into censorship in Chicago Public Schools. He holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently a young adult librarian at Skokie Public Library in Skokie, Illinois.

References

Ellen Mayer, Red Socks (Cambridge, MA: Star Bright, 2015), 12.

Ellen Mayer, A Fish to Feed (Cambridge, MA: Star Bright, 2015), 7.

Ellen Mayer, Cake Day (Cambridge, MA: Star Bright, 2016), 28.

Debra J. Knoll, "Engaging Babies in the Library: Putting Theories into Practice," American Libraries, May 31, 2016, https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/engaging-babies-library-childrens-librarians.

Ellen Mayer, Rosa's Very Big Job (Cambridge, MA: Star Bright, 2016), 28.

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Published

2017-06-15

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2017): Summer

Section

Features

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