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A Special Gift for the New BabyWe start talking to our baby from birth, but many new parents don't realize that we also need to start reading to our baby from birth. Babies are born with one billion brain cells, and each brain cell can have 15,000 synapses, or connections. Sensory information leads to these synapses. Tens of thousands of new connections are made every second until age 2 1/2, and these natural connections will have value if what they see and hear during this time has meaning. Sharing an Usborne book with baby is an experience filled with meaningful sensory information -- bright colors, textured pages, rhyming words, pictures of familiar objects and new objects, and most important, the closeness and security of being held in the arms of mother or father while exploring books. What makes Usborne baby books so special? Take a look at some of our best-selling titles and series for new babies: "Find-its" Board Books
Touchy Feely Books First Picture Board Book Series
Lullabies
“How do we hand our children a love of books? Author Mem Fox reports.” “I’m a read-aloud fanatic. I know that reading aloud to children every day from their first year of life until they start school (and beyond) changes their lives forever. By and large, children who have been read to, learn to read easily and learn to love reading. Those who haven't been read to usually find learning to read difficult and tedious. This leads to all sorts of problems that can affect people negatively for the rest of their lives, for example in their relationships with their parents and in their educational success. Most of the brain is developed in the first year of life, so it's vitally important to stimulate that hungry brain by reading aloud daily, talking to children endlessly (even though they can only "talk" back with gurgles and smiles, whimpers and howls), singing nursery rhymes and songs, and playing rhythmic clapping games. Not only does the infant's brain gallop along in its growth as we do this, it also helps us to get magically acquainted with our darlings, get attached, and learn to love each other. Children feel honoured and cherished whenever their parents spend time with them. Making the time to read aloud for at least 10 minutes a day, every day (which means roughly three picture books or the same picture book three times), makes children serene and happy and also settles them comfortably on a smooth ride towards learning to read easily and quickly.Hearing (and watching) the written word being read aloud makes the unfamiliar familiar. It makes unfamiliar print familiar; it makes words, sentences, stories and rhymes familiar; and it makes the wider world familiar. All this helps a child to learn to read.” Mem Fox is the author of Reading Magic: How Your Child Can Learn To Read Before School - And Other Read Aloud Miracles This story was found at:
Baby ShowersUsborne Books baby showers are the best way to build your new baby's home library! And it's so easy -- we take care of all the details! Your family and friends select your baby shower gift from your personalized Usborne Books gift registry, either online or at the baby shower event... You receive the books purchased as gifts complete with inscribed bookplates containing a personal message to baby from the gift-giver... You select additional free books from our catalog of over 1300 titles as our gift to you and your baby! Your Usborne representative makes it easy to have an Usborne baby shower. All you need to do is select a date, provide the space, and let us do the rest! Share this printable flyer with the mom-to-be or the shower hostess, then contact me to reserve your date!
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