Open AccessBuilding Better Brains: Board Books and Thirty Million Words
Author(s) -
Jarrett Dapier
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.15n2.18
Subject(s) - possession (linguistics) , wife , daughter , art , cover (algebra) , art history , genealogy , history , philosophy , theology , political science , law , engineering , linguistics , mechanical engineering
When our daughter was two, she gnawed half the cover off a board book version of Peggy Rathmann’s Goodnight, Gorilla. To her, it was a book good enough to eat. Our copy—tattered, weathered, gnawed—remains on our bookshelf. To my wife and me, the mangled little thing is a treasured possession.
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