While writing Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age, I interviewed teachers, librarians, child development experts, neuroscientists and many other professionals.

In the book, I distilled their advice about interactive reading into a simple “Born Reading Playbook” for parents to use when reading.

To supplement that material, I created the free Born Reading: Storytime Tips from Great Readers slideshow collecting interactive reading tips from some of the best readers I met along my journey, including poet Nikki Giovanni, comic book creator Stan Lee and Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton.

You can watch the whole slideshow below. These five tips each include a recommended book that parents and caregivers can use to practice the technique…