Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf

Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading.

For whom have I labored? For whom have I journeyed? For whom have I suffered? I have gained absolutely Nothing for myself.