See the effects that 12 minutes of TV has on a child:

Click here to read the accompaning article The Face of Television by Paul Gullixson

Now look at the difference between a child watching TV and drawing:

SUPPLEMENTAL READING LIST:

Louisa M. Alcott. Little Women
Thomas B. Aldrich. Story of a Bad Boy [Only chapter 13]
Aesop. Aesop's Fables
Helen Bannerman. The Story of Little Black Sambo
James Mathew Barrie. Peter Pan
L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
John Bennett. Master Skylark
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett. A Little Princess
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carlo Collodi. The Adventures of Pinocchio
Susan Coolidge. What Katy Did Next
James Fenimore Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans
Mary Mapes Dodge. Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hound of the Baskervilles
Alexander Dumas. The Three Musketeers
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows
Lucretia Peabody Hale. The Complete Peterkin Papers
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus
Nathaniel Hawthorne. House of Seven Gables
Helen Hunt Jackson. Ramona
Charles Kingsley. Water Babies
Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book
Selma Lagerlof. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Andrew Lang. Blue Fairy Book
Sinclair Lewis. Holiday House
Hugh Lofting. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
George MacDonald. At the Back of the North Wind
Capt. Frederick Marryat. The Children of the New Forest
A. A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh
L. M. Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables
Edith Nesbit. The Story of the Treasure Seekers
James Otis. Toby Tyler, or, Ten Weeks With a Circus
Eleanor H. Porter. Pollyana
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Howard Pyle. Otto of the Silver Hand
Charles Reade. The Cloister and the Hearth
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. Captain January
John Ruskin. The King of the Golden River
Anna Sewell. Black Beauty
Margaret Sidney. The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Catherine Sinclair. Holiday House
Johanna Spyri. Heidi
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Frank R. Stockton. The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales
Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper
Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Oscar Wilde. The Happy Prince and Other Tales

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