Open AccessDogs and Pigs and Birds, Oh My! A Bevy of Animals Serve as Partners in Literacy
Author(s) -
Marybeth Kozikowski
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.16.2.3
Subject(s) - reading (process) , literacy , psychology , sociology , library science , pedagogy , philosophy , linguistics , computer science
“Living things in the library encourage reading. They certainly provoke questions and conversations with patrons.”That quote from Kate Capps, children’s librarian and school liaison of the Olathe Indian Creek Library in Kansas, is one that I—and many other librarians—would tend to agree with, based on the number of programs nationwide that encourage kids to read to or with animals.