“I have lived my life in the service of words: finding where they hide in the convoluted recesses of the brain, studying their layers of meaning and form, and teaching their secrets to the young.”
-Maryanne Wolf
“Quite simply this book is spectacular. Somehow Wolf takes the reader on an absolutely engrossing journey through time, cultures, the brain, and long-standing philosophical questions about our very existence, all in an astonishingly thorough account of the evolution of writing, reading, and the reading brain… Read this book for an incredible walk though time and reading; be prepared to be amazed.”
— Connie Juel, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Stanford University