HI ITS RITA

Just been looking at the mountain of books chloe has up to now she has 60, a mixture of card books, ordinary books and material books and she got 2 off her auntie anne yesterday and one off try to write  at meet (even shes invoved in meets also ali has got her more for christmas i father christmas is putting one in her stocking she loves looking through these little books and alis going to start soon reading her stories before she goes to bed , shes definatly going to take after ali and i

 thats right rita start her young

LOL!!

When I saw the title to this thread, I had a feeling that it would be from your Chloe, and not a forum memeber whose name I hadn't quite figured out yet!

 Read as pointed pictures out to my 2 eldest from them being 10days old and they are both avid readers. In fact my eldest son could recognise a lot of words at 3 and could pick out every letter of the alaphbet  and by 4 could recite it.My third child wouldn't sit and be read to and he is not really a reader as such but is coming in to it now with computer books.

I started reading to mine when they were just under a year old. We got the free ones from Bookstart at 8 months and that spurred me on. Both are now keen readers, even son who took a long time to convince that reading could be fun, despite his being good at it. He now has a reading age 4 yrs above his chronological age according to the tests they do at school.

And of course, it's fun. I love reading to my two and miss some of the gorgeous picture books that they've now grown out of, though my daughter sometimes reads them to her dolls!