- Babies, Books, and Libraries
This article discusses the benefits of reading aloud to young children, and includes read aloud tips and book suggestions.
- Sharing Books with your Infant or Toddler
This talks about how to get started and offers links to other useful resources.
- Family Reading Time
This webpage discusses the importance of sharing books as a family and contains suggestions for fitting it into a busy schedule. The page links to selection suggestions by age level from infant to age five (a substantial book list is also provided for each age level discussed.)
- Good Times with Stories and Poems
This is an extensive article that discusses why stories and poems are important to share with children, and discusses selection and read aloud technique for each developmental stage - from infant to early school-aged children, including a short booklist for each stage.
- Raising a Book-Loving Baby
This article discusses ways to get your baby's attention, tips on book selection, and a short booklist of read alouds for babies and toddlers.
- Reading to Babies, Toddlers, and Young Children: The What? The Why? And the How?
This is a collection of webpages found at the Child Literacy Centre website that contains an array of information pertaining to reading aloud, including tips for the adult who is not a confident reader themselves.
- Beginning with Books: Center for Early Literacy, Best Books for Babies
Beginning with Books created a book award of "Best Books for Babies" in order to promote reading aloud to infants and this will link you to the selection criteria and lists of current and past winners.
- Children's Book Council: Books to Grow On
This is a list of recommended books for babies organized by developmental age bracket from 0 - 18 months.
- Read2Kids.org
This website offers recommended books to read aloud and is organized in the following categories: wordless books, repeating patterns, Board, Alphabet, Counting & Concepts, Picture, Cultural, Spanish-English bilingual, and Poetry.
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