Growing a Reader from Birth: Your Child's Path from Language to Literacy

Explores the various ways in which children learn language and traces the language growth in children from infants to preschoolers, documenting milestones in vocabulary development, listening and communication skills, and reading ability and explaining how parents can maximize a child's abilities and become a positive force in nurturing a child's language. 20,000 first printing.

Diane McGuinness, Ph.D., is the author of When Children Don't Learn and Why Our Children Don't Read and What We Can Do About It.