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Penguin Random House Canada Introduces New Immersive Story Time App to Help Kids Tap Into the Magic of Reading

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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Penguin Random House Canada is proud to announce the launch of the early access web app, Living Stories , which aims to transform every bedtime story into an immersive experience.

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  • Penguin Random House Canada is proud to announce the launch of the early access web app, Living Stories , which aims to transform every bedtime story into an immersive experience.
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    Children are facing declines in their abilities in reading, according to recent reports.
  • “I’ve witnessed firsthand the startling drop in children’s capabilities in reading books and how parents felt powerless towards that issue.
  • Penguin Random House Canada embarked on this journey to help further engage children in reading and hope to make Living Stories a fully-integrated app.

Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science

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Friday, September 29, 2023
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It can help people think critically about the ethics of science.

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  • It can help people think critically about the ethics of science.
  • Thinking critically about science and technology is an important part of education in STEM – or science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Complicated content?

    • Nevertheless, most of them indicated that while they recommend science fiction books to individual readers, they do not choose science fiction for activities or group readings.
    • The teachers and librarians explained that they saw two related problems with science fiction for their youngest readers: low availability and complicated content.

Why sci-fi books are scarce in schools

    • Several respondents said that there simply are not as many science fiction books available for elementary school students.
    • To investigate further, I counted the number of science fiction books available in 10 randomly selected elementary school libraries from across the United States.
    • Only 3% of the books in each library were science fiction.

A question of maturity

    • Susan Fichtelberg – a longtime librarian – wrote a guide to teen fantasy and science fiction.
    • Other children’s literature experts have speculated whether children under 12 have sufficient knowledge to comprehend science fiction.
    • The more a reader is exposed to science fiction stories, the better they understand how to read them.

A matter of choice

    • The good news is that elementary school students are choosing science fiction regardless of what adults might think they can or cannot understand.
    • The model predicted that a science fiction book is over twice as likely to be checked out than books in any of the other genres.
    • Encouraging children to explore science fiction may not guarantee science careers, but children deserve to learn from science fiction to help them navigate their increasingly high-tech world.