♥ READING to your baby ♥

This book shows you the best way to read to your baby and how to develop this skills into storytelling. It gives you information on a variety of techniques that will help fire your child's imagination and encourage a pattern of reading.

Reading has a vital place in a baby's development as it's essential for building communication and literacy skills. It's also highly pleasurable for both parent and bab, enabling bonding, the happy use of time spent together and having fun with words.

• Insight into the benefits of reading to your baby from an early age.
• Techniques such as painting pictures with words and employing facial expressions, hand gestures and soft toys to bring stories alive.
• Suggestions for what to read at each age.
• Advice on using bedtime storytelling to promote a good night's sleep.
• Ways of getting your baby to engage with a story and how books can teach 'good' behaviour and to cope with the enexpected.
• Storytelling games and activities for parents or groups of children.
• Guidance in creating your own tales, using people and events familiar to your child.