Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia Book

While I don't disagree about the importance of reading out loud to your children, I do take issue with her conclusions that reading out loud alone will teach your child to read. In some cases that is definitely true, but everyone's brain is wired differently and learns differently.

I also strongly object to her flippancy with how she talks about dyslexia. We have read out loud to our daughter since she was an infant, and I still read out loud to her at age 7 because she loves books and stories and it builds her vocabulary and comprehension. However, her brain is wired in such a way that she is never going to just look at the words and "get it"!

This isn't a bad book, but not the book you need to read if your child struggles with reading because of having a central nervous system that works in a less common fashion.