Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two Children Tell

摘要

Stories, Pictures and Reality is a study of how children respond to books, based on Lowe's own children Rebecca, born 1971, and Ralph, born 1975, who are now "delightful, responsible, courageous book-loving adults". Lowe kept a journal, recording the books to which they had listened and, later, read, and their reactions and comments, until they were eight and then less frequently until they left home at 18.rnShe is not the first parent to have done this. Dorothy Neal White's Books before Five (1954), Dorothy Butler's Cushla and Her Books (1979), Prelude to Literacy by Hugh and Maureen Crago (1983) and The Braid of Literature by Shelby Wolf and Shirley Heath (1992) are earlier examples of detailed studies of children's reading, to which Lowe makes reference.