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A Special Gift for the New Baby
We 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 the Duck
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A Stephen Cartwright illustrated board book with the beloved
duck develops visual discrimination at the earliest age. As baby grows, our Farmyard
Tales and phonics series with the hidden dick provides comfort in familiarity and
continuity. |
Touchy Feely Books
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Usborne's best-selling series of all time. Bright
colors, repetitive text, and sturdy pages appeal to both baby and parent! The
tactile stimulation from the textured pages actually builds baby's brain cells. |
First Words Series
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Babies love artist Jo Litchfield's claymation pictures!
The unique claymation process helps baby make the transition from two dimenional
objects on the page to three dimensional objects in baby's world. |
Lullabies
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Enjoy and share these classic lullabies. Book is
beautifully illustrated and includes instrumental lullabies CD. |
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Excerpts from: Babies, books
and a lesson in happiness
“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:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/06/1070625577179.html |
Baby Needs Books Baby Showers
Usborne 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!
Your Baby Can Read!
Your Baby Can Read! Early Language Development System
from Robert Titzer, Ph. D. is now available through Usborne Books! The first five
years of life are the most critical for brain development and the most natural window for
learning language -- both spoken and written.
We all know that babies needs as much exposure to language as possible. Here's a
tool to help you! We know babies don't need to read maps or medicine bottles --
you'll do that for them for a few years! But they do need language. That's why
we teach them sign language and are constantly naming things for them! If you
are a parent who wants your child to have all kinds of exposure to langage and to be able
to relate spoken, written and visual cues to words, this is for you!
The results from having fun watching these videos are amazing, especially in toddlers
and preschoolers who have had no other exposure to television programs or videos.
Picture your three year old happily reading a picture book while you make dinner, and
imagine how many more hundreds or thousands of children's books your child be able to
discover once he or she is reading independently years before first
grade!
Take a look at the research and news about Your Baby Can Read on Dr. Titzer's blog - just be sure
to come back here when you're ready to order!
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 5 DVD set plus 5 double-sided sliding word and
picture cards and 1 wipe-clean word card and non-toxic pen.
$79.95
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