A rather obvious discovery has recently been made by a group of university researchers suggesting that there may be quite a few other discoveries that are out there waiting for someone to come along and unveil them. Little children enjoy listening to stories that adults read aloud to them and usually adults like reading these stories to them. If the book has many illustrations the child follows the story more carefully, remembers it better and learns more vocabulary. The discovery: The more illustrations there are per page the less new words the child will remember. The pictures are useful if there is only one per page. In fact, the child looks for confirmation of what is being read out aloud in the picture. If there are many pictures the correspondence between what is said and what is seen may not be immediately clear if the child is very small. Three-year old children who listen to a story where there are three pictures for every page that is read, remember only half of the new words they remember when there is only one picture for every page. If, however, the adult who is reading also points to the picture of the three on the page that corresponds to the stage reached in the story then the child remembers many more words although less than if the picture is single. If the reader gesticulates while reading, changes voice tone to emphasize the different moments of the story and points to the part of the picture that corresponds to what is being read then the child remembers even more words.