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How can you turn your distracted, plugged-in child into a voracious reader eager to devour every book in sight? By speaking to their inner bookmonster, of course! In Bringing Up Bookmonsters, wife-and-husband team Amber and Andy Ankowski suggest fun strategies rooted in developmental psychology - absolutely no flashcards or timers required. Talk to your baby bookmonster: Narrate your actions as you do chores and have babble "conversations." A love of reading starts at birth with a love of language!Build a bookmonster habitat: Keep books in the toy box and alphabet magnets on the fridge.Turn storytime into playtime: Try making mistakes your bookmonster will catch. ("Let's read The Dog in the Hat!") From playing literacy-building games in the car to filling your home library to adapting screen time, raising your bookmonster can be a whole lot of ferocious fun!.
About the Author
Amber Ankowski is an expert in child development, with a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, experience teaching at several Southern California universities, and three young children that she both teaches - and learns from - every day. She parents and writes with her husband Andy Ankowski, who studied creative writing at the University of Notre Dame, has written award-winning advertising for more than a decade, and believes a good sense of humor is a parent's best friend.
