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Molly Bang. Picture This: How Pictures Work. New York: SeaStar Books, 1991.

Barbara T. Bowman and Elizabeth Beyer. "Thoughts on Technology and Early Childhood Education." In: Young Children: Active Learners in a Technological Age. June L. Wright and Daniel D. Shade (editors). Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 1994.

Jane Davidson and June L. Wright. "The Potential of the Microcomputer in the Early Childhood Classroom." In: Young Children. Wright and Shade, eds. Washington, D.C.: NAEYC, 1994.

Bernadette Davis and Daniel D. Shade. Integrate, Don't Isolate! Computers in the Early Childhood Curriculum. ERIC Digest - ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, ED 376991, 1994.

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Maria T. DeJong and Adriana G. Bus. "How Well Suited Are Electronic Books to Supporting Literacy?" Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 3, no. 2(-2003): 147-64.

Baba Wague Diakité. The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale. New York: Scholastic, 1997, contributed to ICDL by Scholastic.

David K. Dickinson. "Book Reading in Preschool Classrooms: Is Recommended Practice Common?" In: Beginning Literacy with Language. David K. Dickinson and Patton O. Tabors (editors). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Pub. 2001, 175-203.

David K. Dickinson and Miriam W. Smith. "Long–Term Effects of Pre-school Teachers' Book Readings on Low-Income Children's Vocabulary and Story Comprehension." Reading Research Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1994): 105-22.

Eliza T. Dresang and Kathryn McClelland. "Radical Change: Digital Age Literature and Learning." Theory into Practice 38, no. 3 (1999): 160-67.

Elfrieda Hiebert and P. David Pearson. "Building on the Past, Bridging to the Future: A Research Agenda for the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement." Journal of Educational Research 93, no. 3 (2000): 133-44.

Thacher Hurd. Axle the Freeway Cat. New York: Harper & Row, 1981, contributed to ICDL by Thacher Hurd.

International Reading Association and NAEYC. "Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children." The Reading Teacher 52, no. 2 (1998): 193-215.

Wai Man Leung. "The Shift from a Traditional to a Digital Classroom."Childhood Education 80, no. 1 (2003): 12-17.

David Lewis. Reading Contemporary Picturebooks: Picturing Text. London: Routledge Falmer, 2001.

Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott. How Picturebooks Work. New York: Garland, 2000.

Perry Nodelman. Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1988.

Kara Reuter and Allison Druin. "Bringing Together Children and Books: An Initial Descriptive Study of Children's Book Searching and Selection Behavior in a Digital Library." Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.; Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 2004, 339-48.

Joseph Schwarcz. Ways of the Illustrator: Visual Communication in Children's Literature. Chicago: ALA, 1982.

Joseph Schwarcz and Chava Schwarcz. The Picture Book Comes of Age: Looking at Childhood through the Art of Illustration. Chicago: ALA, 1991.

Alyson Simpson. "What Happens When a Book Gets Judged by Its Cover? The Importance of a Critical Understanding of Images in Children's Picture Books." Bookbird 42, no. 3 (2004): 24.

Frances A. Smardo. A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Types of Public Library Story Hour Programs in Improving the Receptive Language of Children Three, Four, and Five Years of Age. Denton: North Texas State University, 1982. Eric Document Reproduction Service ED 224 503.

William H. Teale. "Questions about Early Literacy Learning and Teaching That Need Asking - and Some That Don’t." In: Literacy and Young Children: Research-based Practices. Diane M. Barone and Lesley Mandel Morrow (editors). New York: Guilford Press, 2003, 23-44.

Ellen Wartella and Nancy Jennings. "Children and Computers: New Technology - Old Concerns." Children and Computer Technology 10, no. 2 (2001) 31-43.

About the Author

Lauren Collen has a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from Wayne State University and a master's degree in library and information science from Dominican University; in 2005 she was awarded the C. Berger Entrepreneurial Promise Award. She is a youth services librarian at the Niles (Ill.) Public Library District outside of Chicago, where she does storytelling, creates and conducts programs for babies, preschoolers, and school-age children, and does graphic design and mural displays as the artist for the youth services department. She is at work on her first picture book.

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