TY - BOOK AU - Carmel Houston-Price AU - Jessica S. Horst AB - Looking at and listening to picture and story books is a ubiquitous activity, frequently enjoyed by many young children and their parents. Well before children can read for themselves they are able to learn from books. Looking at and listening to books increases children’s general knowledge, understanding about the world and promotes language acquisition. This collection of papers demonstrates the breadth of information pre-reading children learn from books and increases our understanding of the social and cognitive mechanisms that support this learning. Our hope is that this Research Topic/eBook will be useful for researchers as well as educational practitioners and parents who are interested in optimizing children’s learning. DO - 10.3389/978-2-88919-728-6 ID - OAPEN ID: 18848 KW - illustrations KW - narratives KW - stereotypes KW - story books KW - early literacy KW - picture books KW - anthropomorphism KW - dialogic reading KW - word learning KW - cross-cultural comparisons L1 - http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1579/an-open-book-what-and-how-young-children-learn-from-picture-and-story-books LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/55263 PB - Frontiers Media SA PY - 2016 SN - 9782889197286 TI - An Open Book: What and How Young Children Learn From Picture and Story Booksnull ER -