Why Sharing Books with Young Children is Important Children are born learning. Current research on early learning and brain development shows that it is never too early to prepare children for success as readers. Over the first year of life the brain more than doubles its size. By the age of three children’s brains are twice as active as an adult’s brain.  During this time, your child’s brain is producing billions of cells and connecting those cells together. Sharing books, telling stories, singing, rhyming, recognizing sounds and letters, triggers the growth of your child’s brain cells and connections. Different parts of the brain are stimulated when you encourage your child to alternately listen, talk, mimic and point out objects in books.

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