Little Readers

I love kids. I love books. I love kids reading books. I love reading books with kids. I love that people in my life know these things about me. They get me.

That's me on the left reading a book to my one-day-old nephew. I read him a few nursery rhymes from a book my sister and I had when we were kids. He was sleeping but I kept reading!

Keep scrolling and you'll see more images of babies, toddlers, and kids with books. Family and friends have shared these pictures with me. I'm pretty lucky to be related to some great parents who understand the importance of reading, even with little ones!

I love this one. First, how great is it that this kiddo has her own little cabinet of books at her level?! Second, how cute is it that she likes her books so much that she crawls in to sit WITH them?! Her smile is so big!

This is my nephew hanging out with one of his early favorites. My sister read this book to him so many times that she could recite it from memory. 

Here's my nephew just last week. My sister texted this one to me saying, "Reading in the car doesn't bother him!" Well, isn't he lucky?! 

What are these smart girls reading? Just the dictionary and an atlas! I feel like there were some funny quotes from the one looking at the atlas, but this was a few years ago and I didn't write the conversation down! 

All of these kids have played with books from a very early age. They have been been read to, talked to, and sung to.  They have heard classic stories and rhymes. The older girls with the atlas and dictionary have finished listening to their dad read them the entire Harry Potter series! I wish all children could grow up in households surrounded by books and people who make reading fun. If every kid had the book experiences of these children early on, maybe we would have more readers-real readers- in school.