Reading Miyazaki

We Start Reading Too Late

Erik Hoel | Intrinsic Perspective | 31st July 2025

Children can start learning to read at an early age, between two and four. There is plenty of historical evidence from the 18C that this was common, since specific reading primers were published for this age group. Yet it is increasingly the norm in the US that reading isn't taught until kids are seven or eight, because of 60-year-old "neuromyths" about what early reading does to the brain (3,500 words)

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The Pressure That Made Miyazaki

Animation Obsessive | 28th July 2025

Before they founded Studio Ghibli in the 1980s, the animator-director partnership of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata were working continual overtime making films and TV series as employees of other companies. Hits included Heidi, Girl of the Alps and Anne of Green Gables, both from the mid-1970s. This retrospective is illustrated with plenty of wonderful sketches and frame outlines (2,900 words)