I'm the proud owner of a bookish child. Since he learned to read it's been the main activity of his days. Francis Spufford in The Child That Books Built describes how his parents could tell when he was reading when a special silence descended: "a reading silence... that somehow travelled through walls and ceilings to announce that my seven-year-old self had become about as absent as a present person could be." I know how they felt. The reading silence is unmistakable, and it can go on for hours.
Dyslexia
Dyslexia
Dyslexia
I'm the proud owner of a bookish child. Since he learned to read it's been the main activity of his days. Francis Spufford in The Child That Books Built describes how his parents could tell when he was reading when a special silence descended: "a reading silence... that somehow travelled through walls and ceilings to announce that my seven-year-old self had become about as absent as a present person could be." I know how they felt. The reading silence is unmistakable, and it can go on for hours.