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Reading is a fundamental skill, and one way to encourage good habits in children is to develop good listening skills. Through a partnership with Chicago-based telecommunications company TDS Metrocom, the Warren-Newport Public Library has acquired two story phones for its children's areas that will allow listening to a variety of recorded short stories such as "The Princess and the Pea" and "Sleeping Beauty." (Pioneer Press Online).

ну, надо же - кому что! кому - слушанье разивать важнее всего, а кому и собственно story-telling (которое это слушанье губит). как бы так "и есть хочется, и худеть хочется"?