A review by choirqueer
Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between by Jason Boog

4.0

Although I'm not a parent, I found this book really interesting because it covers a lot of issues relating to reading development that I hadn't given a lot of consideration before. I really appreciated the anecdotes illustrating the author's own child's progression through different stages of readership and how that related to her development in other ways. The attention to technological advancements such as audiobooks, apps, and "screen time" was very informative; these were things my parents never had to consider when I was a child. The one weakness I noticed in this book was that some sections seemed out of place in relation to the chapters in which they were included -- for instance, a section on books for older readers was included in the chapter on reading with your child in their first year of life, when it seemed like that would be more appropriate for the chapter on "kindergarten and beyond". Overall, I definitely feel like this book would be very useful to parents or to other adults interested in learning more about useful strategies for raising children who read. I would be really interested to hear whether actual parents feel similarly.