{"product_id":"9780062388773","title":"Reader, Come Home : The Reading Brain in a Digital World","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eReader, Come Home\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Maryanne Wolf\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eProust and the Squid\u003c\/em\u003e follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s \u003cem\u003eProust and the Squid\u003c\/em\u003e revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us—her beloved readers—to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums. Wolf raises difficult questions, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill children learn to incorporate the full range of \"deep reading\" processes that are at the core of the expert reading brain?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill the mix of a seemingly infinite set of distractions for children’s attention and their quick access to immediate, voluminous information alter their ability to think for themselves?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith information at their fingertips, will the next generation learn to build their own storehouse of knowledge, which could impede the ability to make analogies and draw inferences from what they know?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill all these influences change the formation in children and the use in adults of \"slower\" cognitive processes like critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy that comprise deep reading and that influence both how we think and how we live our lives?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can we preserve deep reading processes in future iterations of the reading brain?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerns about attention span, critical reasoning, and over-reliance on technology are never just about children—Wolf herself has found that, though she is a reading expert, her ability to read deeply has been impacted as she has become increasingly dependent on screens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWolf draws on neuroscience, literature, education, and philosophy and blends historical, literary, and scientific facts with down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate complex ideas that culminate in a proposal for a biliterate reading brain. Provocative and intriguing, \u003cem\u003eReader, Come Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective on the impact of technology on our brains and our most essential intellectual capacities—and what this could mean for our future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Wolf offers a persuasive catalog of the cognitive and social good created by deep reading…. She’s right that digital media doesn’t automatically doom deep reading and can even enhance it. She’s also correct that we have a lot to lose if we don’t pay attention to what we’re doing with technology and what it’s doing to us.”\u003cbr\u003e“[A] gentle manifesto…. [Wolf] affirms and celebrates the power of reading for the formation of our moral imaginations, and a lifetime of bookish devotion bubbles to the surface of her lovely prose in allusion and quotation.”\u003cbr\u003e“Maryanne Wolf has done it again. She has written another seminal book destined to become a dog-eared, well-thumbed, often-referenced treasure on your bookshelf.... \u003cem\u003eReader Come Home\u003c\/em\u003e conveys a cautionary message, but it also will rekindle your heart and help illuminate promising paths ahead.”\u003cbr\u003e“This rich study by cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf tackles an urgent question: how do digital devices affect the reading brain? Wolf explores the “cognitive strata below the surface of words”, the demotivation of children saturated in on-screen stimulation, and the power of ‘deep reading’ and challenging texts in building nous and ethical responses such as empathy…. An antidote for today’s critical-thinking deficit.”\u003cbr\u003e“[T]imely and important.... if you love reading and the ways it has enriched your life and our world, \u003cem\u003eReader, Come Home\u003c\/em\u003e is essential, arriving at a crucial juncture in history.”\u003cbr\u003e“Wolf wields her pen with equal parts wisdom and wonder. The result is a joy to read and reread, a love letter to literature, literacy, and progress.”\u003cbr\u003e“Wolf stays firmly grounded in reality when presenting suggestions... for how to teach young children to be competent, curious, and contemplative in a world awash in digital stimulus. [\u003cem\u003eReader, Come Home\u003c\/em\u003e] is a clarion call for parents, educators, and technology developers to work to retain the benefits of reading independent of digital media.”\u003cbr\u003e“Wolf is a lovely prose writer who draws not only on research but also on a broad range of literary references, historical examples, and personal anecdotes. The strongest parts of \u003cem\u003eReader, Come Home\u003c\/em\u003e are her moving accounts of why reading matters, and her deeply detailed exploration of how the reading brain is being changed by screens…. Wolf makes a strong case for what we lose when we lose reading.”\u003cbr\u003e“A love song to the written word, a brilliant introduction to the science of the reading brain and a powerful call to action. With each page, Wolf shows us why we must preserve deep reading for ourselves and sow desire for it within our kids.  Otherwise we risk losing the critical benefits for humanity that come with reading deeply to understand our world.”\u003cbr\u003e“Scholar, storyteller, and humanist, Wolf brings her laser sharp eye to the science of reading in a seminal book about what it means to be literate in our digital and global age.  Informed by a review of research from neuroscience to Socratic philosophy, and wittily crafted with true affection for her audience, \u003cem\u003eReader Come Home\u003c\/em\u003e charts a compelling case for a new approach to lifelong literacy that could truly affect the course of human history.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062388773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41114944241870,"sku":"9780062388773","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062388773_ec500f02-5e11-4263-bd64-98b17bb80af9.jpg?v=1652140064","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062388773","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}