Reading Multilingual Literature: The Bilingual Brain and Literacy Education

This paper focuses on the child reading the literatures discussed in the other articles in this special issue of Bookbird. More specifically, it focuses on how the bilingual brain differs from the monolingual brain, and provides a general overview of those areas of difference that relate to reading. I conclude with a brief discussion of the implications of these differences for literacy development and education, paying particular attention to the place for multilingual literatures within literacy development.