And virtual. No doubt this is a feature perhaps in our helicopter in age but i think this attitude often fails to promote a sense of independence and kids. They entertain themselves without a device in hand so for reasons both selfish and selfless we know this was an important life skill for them. Our kids have trouble reading for pleasure is perhaps the activity that has suffered the most i its fallen by 30 since 2004. If there is a way to reverse the trend, i think it will have to start with our children and i can think of no one who can help us better than pamela the Childrens Book editor at the New York Times is also the author of the book review podcast. She talks about the research and book for a little bit and she and i are going to have a conversation and then we will open up to conversations from the audience with that i will turn over to pamela. Im telling it for a reason. First of all this is something that happened my last time i came down for the National Book festival we
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