Some pages for World Book Day
We offer a themed trawl of the Psychologist and Research Digest archive.
05 March 2015
Today is World Book Day. Over the years we have published numerous pieces on books and reading, so we thought we would gather a few of them here.
The benefits of bedtime reading - Joanna Blake and Nicholas Maiese
Words and sorcery - bad writing and its impact on the reader - Jon Sutton and Simon Oxenham
The teller, the tale, and the told - the psychology of oral storytelling
Where's Daddy? What do children do in contemporary children's picturebooks
Where the Wild Things Are - Richard Gottlieb and Jon Sutton analyse Maurice Sendak's classic
Frodo's journey - Paula Jean Manners offers a Kleinian perspective on Lord of the Rings
Heroes and villains - David Robson uncovers their secret
The secret to great storytelling - Annie Brookman-Byrne reviews Will Storr's book. See also our interview with him: 'Storytelling is your best weapon for convincing people'.
You can also search our site for lots of great content on books and reading from both The Psychologist and the Research Digest, for example this on protagonists in children's books.
Happy reading!