Anne E. Cunningham

Anne E. Cunningham is co-author, with Jamie Zibulsky, of Book Smart: How to Support and Develop Successful, Motivated Readers, a how-to guide for parents rich with stories, lessons, activities, and ideas aimed at addressing the broad range of interpersonal, social, emotional, and motivational skills that must be fostered in young children. The goal of this book is to help parents recognize how much the everyday conversations and activities they engage in help foster reading development, and to answer commonly asked questions about how children become successful, motivated readers.

Anne is a Professor of Human Development in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. As a developmental psychologist and former preschool and elementary school teacher, Anne is known for her research on literacy development across the life span where she examines the cognitive and motivational processes underlying children's reading ability and the interplay of context, development, and literacy instruction.

Book Smart brings together this body of research through lively discussion of what parents can do to nurture their children's reading development. Anne has been awarded several prestigious research fellowships from the National Academy of Education and the International Reading Association. She serves on numerous expert panels for children's literacy initiatives, such as the U.S. Department of Education National Early Literacy Panel and the California Literacy and Language Preschool Foundations Panel.