Proust and the squid the story and science of the reading brain human beings were never born to read reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new proust and the squid chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years since writing began but . In fact she holds an edd harvard 1979 the popular fascination with brain science seems to be making a belated impact on reading teacher education over the past year i have received personal communications from several literacy scholars praising maryanne wolf s proust and the squid for giving them a new appreciation of the current neuroscience research on reading and reading disability. Proust and the squid the story and science of the reading brain by marianne wolff is the full title and the book is quite good it has sections on history of different scripts and languages an extensive one on reading development research into the neurophysiology of the reading brain comparisons of the reading brain vs non reading brain reading disabilities and the future of reading. This item proust and the squid the story and science of the reading brain by maryanne wolf paperback 1161 only 1 left in stock more on the way ships from and sold by amazoncom