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Reading guides

What the evidence says about reading with children — every figure sourced, and every limitation stated.

• Reading to young children and the developing brain

  Paediatricians now recommend reading with children from birth. Here is what the evidence shows, what it does not, and why the ordinary nightly habit matters more than any particular book.

• Why reading still matters when AI can answer anything

  An assistant can summarise a book in a sentence. It cannot give a child the thing reading builds by doing it.