Activities for children at christmas

A new coloring and story book for children

Why reading is important for babies and young children. Sharing stories, talking and singing every day helps your child's development in lots of ways. Reading and sharing stories can: help your child become familiar with sounds, words, language and the value of books; spark your child's imagination, stimulate curiosity. Many picture books are written at a higher reading level, use amazingly complex vocabularies and offer interesting plots.

The illustrations of a picture book help children understand what they are reading and allow young readers to analyze the story. When children are having difficulty, the illustrations help then to get ideas better. Books create warm emotional bonds between adults and kids when they read books together. Books help kids develop basic language skills and profoundly expand their vocabularies—much more than any other media. Books are interactive; they demand that kids think. Some parents try to rush their children out of picture books into chapter books because they believe that reading text-heavy books will help young people prepare for standardized testing, not realizing that picture books can be a valuable resource and enjoyed by older children, even up through high school.