Overview

Families expecting a baby receive the children’s book Read to Me by Judi Moreillon and a bookmark emphasizing the importance of establishing read aloud traditions at home, beginning before birth and continuing after the baby is born.

Objectives

• To invite expectant parents to read aloud to their baby now, in order to build a routine they can continue throughout infancy and childhood.
• To share information about early literacy development with families, before they are overwhelmed with a newborn!
• To start a home library of children’s books.

The Book

Read to Me is a board book that will grow with your baby. The rhyming text will engage an infant with its sing-song quality and carries the important message for parents that reading to your child is a way to love your child. As the baby grows to a toddler, he or she will come to understand the story in the book and appreciate all the babies, children, and grown-ups portrayed by artist Kyra Teis. We offer both a bilingual Spanish/English and English option for families.