As I. Ramon wrote, "Books are like hugs, they give... and they help us grow."
If your child is under one year of age, enrol him or her at the library and you will receive a free baby-reading package that contains a hardcover book and other surprises.
You will see that you can offer your child the beautiful, magnificent gift of dreams and the imagination! As you continue your visits to the library and return with stories to read to your child, this storytelling time will become a valued moment. In this way, as your reassuring voice describes lovely images, your little one will open up to the beauty and wonder of language! And you will discover that "a book is more important than a toy in a baby’s development."
You will see, as Jacqueline Thériault and Natalie Lavoie state in their book "L’éveil à la lecture et à l’écriture… une responsabilité familiale et communautaire" (Discovering Reading and Writing… a Family and Community Responsibility), that "Reading books to babies and small children is a free game with language that fosters shared emotions, pleasure and knowledge between the parent and the child. This activity and its ritual also sensitizes the child to the beauty of the illustrations, develops the child artistically and aesthetically, and sensitizes him or her to the language of the story, the language of the imagination, the language that informs and opens the doors of knowledge."
So, do not hesitate to enrol your baby at the library, by showing proof of birth at one of the participating libraries.
