Use books and the library

When you next need to give a gift to a child, why not make it a book? When you give a book as a gift, you invest in the future of a child!

Have you noticed how naturally curious children are? Given a chance they will ask question after question!

The young people of South Africa desperately need books. They need books in order to make friends with the whole idea of books.

Most often younger readers choose a book because they like the illustration on the front cover!

From birth to the age of three, children learn an enormous amount of language – even if they do not talk a lot! So, the more stories and books you read to them, the more language they learn.

Although it is always wonderful to curl up on your own with a book, talking about what you are reading can be a different kind of “wonderful”!

There are so many different stories out there and so many books. How do we know which ones make good stories to read aloud?