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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,682 ratings — published 1994
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Board book)
by (shelved 3 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 193,239 ratings — published 1967
Watercress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.51 — 5,962 ratings — published 2021
I Lost My Tooth! (Unlimited Squirrels, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,391 ratings — published 2018
Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 3.99 — 270 ratings — published 2014
Max's Words (Max's Words, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 982 ratings — published 2006
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 317,293 ratings — published 1985
Go, Go, Grapes!: A Fruit Chant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 350 ratings — published 2012
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? (Words Are CATegorical ®)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 602 ratings — published 1999
Whistle for Willie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 11,513 ratings — published 1964
Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as language-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 203 ratings — published 1995
Sundust (A Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 468 ratings — published 2025
Big and Small and In-Between (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 491 ratings — published
Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 112 ratings — published
Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 57 ratings — published 1998
The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and Her Arachnid World War II Army (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 163 ratings — published 2025
Raven's Ribbons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 164 ratings — published 2025
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 356 ratings — published
Insectopolis: A Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 789 ratings — published 2025
Many Things At Once (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 242 ratings — published
Grace Notes: Poems about Families ― A Heartfelt Collection Celebrating Family and Resilience ― for Mother's Day (Ages 10+)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 122 ratings — published
Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.33 — 408 ratings — published 2024
In the Desert (Paws, Fins, Feathers, Claws)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.80 — 45 ratings — published
Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 41 ratings — published 2024
A Book of Maps for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 396 ratings — published
What's That Building?: An Architectural Guessing Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published
Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.96 — 108 ratings — published
The Toolbox for Multilingual Families (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published
Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability: Ideas and inspiration for even greater success and joy raising bilingual kids (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.77 — 344 ratings — published
Family Language Learning: Learn Another Language, Raise Bilingual Children (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, 19)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 2015
To See an Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 728 ratings — published
Be Bilingual - Practical Ideas for Multilingual Families (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.79 — 311 ratings — published 2012
The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.62 — 132 ratings — published 1986
Once Upon A Rhyme: A Trilogy of Children's Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Crane and the Keeper: How an Endangered Crane Chose a Human as Her Mate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 77 ratings — published
Raising a Bilingual Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 361 ratings — published 2008
Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent-One-Language Approach (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, 7)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 2004
The Truth about Poop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 425 ratings — published 2007
Twenty Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 721 ratings — published 2013
How the Sea Came to Be: And All the Creatures In It (Spectacular STEAM for Curious Readers (SSCR))
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 172 ratings — published 2023
The Plot Chickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 721 ratings — published 2009
Animals in Surprising Shades: Poems About Earth's Colorful Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.81 — 155 ratings — published
Butterfly Yellow (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,661 ratings — published 2019
Cats in Construction Hats (Cats in Hats)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.67 — 211 ratings — published
American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.67 — 374 ratings — published
Home in a Lunchbox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,379 ratings — published 2024
I Am Kavi (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 317 ratings — published 2023
Let's Fly! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.54 — 72 ratings — published
I Am the Subway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 757 ratings — published 2021
The All-American (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as language-development)
avg rating 3.63 — 443 ratings — published 2023
“The whole-language trend assumes that reading is a natural, genetically programmed part of language development, and that children will pick it up as easily as speaking. However, as noted, since writing has only existed for 5,ooo years and literacy has only been widespread for a few centuries, it is highly unlikely that the human brain has evolved structures specifically for reading and writing in this time. It is our ability to learn through experience that allows us to achieve reading, but only with explicit instruction.”
― A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
― A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain
“We now know that there is a critical period for language development. If you do not learn to speak as a youngster, you may never learn to speak. The babbling-cooing between baby and mother is a proto-language developed on the way to structuring specific facial muscles: the shapes that the tongue, lips, cheek and jaw will make and the ear will process in the construction of language. The baby is repeating the sounds she or he hears. It takes a lot of practice to get your tongue, mouth, jaw and cheek muscles to coordinate and accurately reflect back what is heard.”
― Bodies
― Bodies
