Written for professionals in primary and special education and speech/language pathologists, this provides direction in story sharing for teachers and parents. Its nine articles includes practical exercises and resources to use in literacy practice in children from toddlers through school age, emphasizing skills related to decoding print, language skills, promoting text comprehension. Topics include a the embedded explicit approach to increase phonological awareness, interactive shared reading to foster print awareness and letter knowledge, shared reading and its effects on early language skills, cultural and family issues in book sharing for preschoolers, vocabulary development in young children through book reading, creating a foundation of later text comprehension with inferential language, and "syntax stories" as aides in fostering narrative and grammatical skills. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)