Real Books in the Caboose

Given the actual empirical evidence on the contribution that books and book reading make reading acquisition, librarians should continue to feel confident that the tools of their trade are central to the reading process, regardless of assertions guiding No Children Left Behind (NCLB). Cole presents a particular interest to librarians, which is the irrefutable knowledge about how children learn to read because it is the bewildering judgment, that book reading makes minimal contribution to beginning reading acquisition.