Evelyn Arizpe
, Morag Styles
, and Shirley Brice Heath
have commended JJ
for her insight that learning to read requires frivolity, storytelling and diversion as well as diligence, rigour and repetition.
Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing, 2006.