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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Besides ... the world produced scads of literate, intelligent people for centuries before book-shaped pacifiers and toys started being sold for children to slobber on. I'm simply not buying the premise of the article. Don't get me wrong; I think promoting literacy is a very admirable thing. I just don't think giving book-shaped toys to children too young to understand the concept of being read to (let alone reading) plays much of a "real" role in promoting literacy.
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I only think that a book you read together with a child of that age should be large, colourful, full of pictures, sturdy and easy to hold with said child on your lap. Often that doesn't go together with an electronic device and paper books are the way to go. But beyond that, a book is a book is a book. As long as a child reads, absorbs strange new ideas, starts building his vocabulary, who cares what format it is in?