An open book : what and how young children learn from picture and story books / / edited by: Jessica S. Horst and Carmel Houston-Price.

Looking at and listening to picture and story books is a ubiquitous activity, frequently enjoyed by many young children and their parents. Well before children can read for themselves they are able to learn from books. Looking at and listening to books increases children's general knowledge, un...

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Superior document:Frontiers in psychology
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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Frontiers Media SA,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Frontiers in psychology.
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:"Published in: Frontiers in psychology" --front cover.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial: An Open Book: What and How Young Children Learn from Picture and Story Books / Jessica S. Horst and Carmel Houston-Price
  • More than pretty pictures? How illustrations affect parent-child story reading and children's story recall / Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Alisa M. Beyer and Jennifer Curtis
  • Storybooks aren't just for fun: narrative and non-narrative picture books foster equal amounts of generic language during mother-toddler book sharing / Angela Nyhout and Daniela K. O'Neill
  • Clues cue the smooze: rhyme, pausing, and prediction help children learn new words from storybooks / Kirsten Read
  • I think I can: achievement-oriented themes in storybooks from Indonesia, Japan, and the United States / Maria Suprawati, Florencia K. Anggoro and Danuta Bukatko
  • Emotion displays in media: a comparison between American, Romanian, and Turkish children's storybooks / Briana Vander Wege, Mayra L. Sánchez González, Wolfgang Friedlmeier, Linda M. Mihalca, Erica Goodrich and Feyza Corapci
  • By the numbers: a quantitative content analysis of children's picturebooks / Laura Wagner
  • When all children comprehend: increasing the external validity of narrative comprehension development research / Silas E. Burris and Danielle D. Brown
  • Learning from picture books: Infants' use of naming information / Melanie Khu, Susan A. Graham and Patricia A. Ganea
  • Once upon a time, there was a fabulous funambulist...: what children learn about the "high-level" vocabulary they encounter while listening to stories / Carmel Houston-Price, Jodie A. Howe and Natalie J. Lintern
  • Goodnight book: sleep consolidation improves word learning via storybooks / Sophie E. Williams and Jessica S. Horst
  • Do storybooks really break children's gender stereotypes? / Carla Abad and Shannon M. Pruden
  • Rethinking the portrayal of deaf characters in children's picture books / Debbie B. Golos and Annie M. Moses.