Read to Your Baby - It's Not Only Babytalk!

Reading to babies sparks their brain development and creativity. It helps them succeed later when they enter school. And, it's a fun and unique bonding opportunity for parents and their babies.

Brooklyn Public Library has launched Brooklyn Reads to Babies to help you get the ball rolling. This is a new early literacy campaign geared especially for parents and caregivers of babies and toddlers. It underscores the importance of reading to children during their first years of life.

Thanks to research over the last decade, we now know a lot about how babies grow and develop their early language and literacy skills. Here are some of the facts:

Babies begin to learn language from birth. Reading aloud exposes children to the sounds of human speech.
By the age of two, children know between 300-500 words. Children who are spoken to and read to frequently have larger vocabularies and develop into better readers.
Sharing books with your baby lays the foundation for learning to read.

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Learn more about BPL's award-winning early literacy campaign Brooklyn Reads to Babies...