sound books allow children to visualise stories even more than they could through images or illustrations, while learning to press the buttons improves their coordination and manual dexterity.

Sound books can be made accessible by affixing a little texture to the spot one must depress to activate. • Choose books that have characters and items that are readily available. Remember the ...

After finishing Ben Shattuck’s masterful new book of short stories, “The History of Sound” I did something I hadn’t done for more than two decades, I started reading it over again from the ...

Sourcebooks has announced that it has entered into a joint venture partnership with Jeffrey Mason, the creator of the Hear Your Story series ... of adult nonfiction books have increased almost ...

Lesh also used his book to detail stories of meeting his personal heroes ... you can pick up a paperback version of “Searching for the Sound” on sale for just $11.99 now on Amazon.com.

in keeping with the rest of the book, unfolds in very human fashion, not dry academise.) There’s a fine geometry to “The History of Sound,” the title story of which is being adapted into a ...

Ben Shattuck's collection of short stories "The History of Sound" is now out. (Author photo courtesy Andreas Burgess; book cover courtesy Penguin Random House) If you are not in the habit of ...