From the moment a child is born, the brain begins growing. Research shows that a parent or caregiver’s voice helps activate the language centers of the brain in infant and toddlers. Each precious month of development is a great time read to your child with board books: small hard books with basic colors, shapes, letters, and numbers. Read more about what other parents recommend in the posts below.
Picture Books for Babies and Toddlers
BookSpring Book Reviewers submitted these recommendations for babies and toddlers. Be sure to access our Weekly Themes for digital books and activities for kids 3-8. If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff Review by Kathleen and Owen (YMSL) This book is excellent for children five or younger ...
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Home Grown Book Lovers
We're reposting this guest blog, by Natalia Mirkowicz, to encourage parents and caregivers, during quarantine, to establish a reading routine with their babies at home. Here's why... A common misconception among families is that literacy education starts during the school years. Yet, research shows that starting to read and speak ...
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Summer Reads from Birth-Age 3
Summer is the perfect time for kids to immerse themselves in reading! U.S. Bank employees are teaming up with us to promote summer reading! Employees shared some of their top children’s book recommendations for kids from birth-age 3. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Review by Halle Morrell The Rainbow ...
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Dr.Seuss books build bonds and imaginations
Venus shares the power of reading with her reviews of some of her favorite Dr. Seuss books! Reading these Dr. Seuss classics is a wonderful way to bond with young ones at home and stimulate their imaginations. Read one of these stories and afterward work on a craft project as ...
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Must Read Series: Green Eggs and Ham
Students from Gorzycki Middle School are helping BookSpring remind kids reading can help them learn and grow. They are reminding all Central Texas families how inspirational and important books can be. These middle schoolers launched the Must Read Series for kids. These are book recommendations by kids for kids and ...
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BookSpring Recommends Unite For Literacy
Parents and caregivers looking for wonderful non-fiction and board-book style e-books will be thrilled by Unite for Literacy's free browser-based platform, where all you need to enter is a zip code to access a library full of digital books ...
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BookSpring Recommends Storyweaver
Are you looking for thousands of free books to read, sorted by age and topic, and available in dozens of languages? Then look no further that Storyweaver. Read three books without signing in, then register with an email to access the entire library of books, created by people all over ...
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Wanted: Healthcare Professionals Who Care About Academic Success
Social science research shows a statistically significant correlation between the size of home libraries and children’s future academic success. According to Unite for Literacy’s book desert map, which analyzes variables including income, ethnicity, geography and languages, at least 70% US households have fewer than 20 children’s books in the home ...
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New Study on Book Gifting for Babies
By Emily Ball Cicchini, Executive Director The tradition of book gifting has been studied scientifically by researchers in education and healthcare for many years. Practices include bookmobiles, little free libraries, and other early literacy interventions and social programs at the regional, national, and global levels. We at BookSpring look to ...
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Reading to Young Children Makes Lasting Impact
by Christy Anderson It makes sense: the more a child reads, the better a child gets at reading. But studies show that being read to is just as critical to a child’s growing literacy and language development, even in very young children, including infants and toddlers. Even Children Who Can’t ...
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