When reading to baby it is important to choose a book that is appropriate for your baby's stage and development as well as their interests.
Your main aim is to foster in your baby a love for reading.  What you read to them will really help with this.  

Here are some ideas and suggestions to help you choose the right books to read to your baby.

One thing is to ask yourself.....What books did your family read to you when you were a baby?

These would be a wonderful books to read to your baby.  


When we go home to stay with my mother she brings out the picture books that we all loved as children and reads them to my son.  He knows that these books are special and that they were loved by his mother, uncle and aunties.  This helps him treasure reading and books.

My husband has a special bedtime story session time with our son each night.  He reads him four books before bed and always ends the reading time with the same book.  It is about a little boy who doesn't want to go to bed and how he finally caves in in the end as he is just too tired. Jamie knows that after this book it will be bedtime.  This has really helped him go to bed happily each night.   As our son has gotten older the bedtime books have changed.  



Here are some great book ideas for your baby's first book collection.

You could also find out what books other parents recommend reading baby.

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