What to read with your baby

There are so many books to choose from that it can be hard to know where to start. That’s where Geisha comes in.

As a rule of thumb, babies enjoy books that have good rhymes, rhythm and repetition. This repetition and rhyming helps children learn and aids in your baby’s development. For instance, the story Inky Selfish the Donkey has a character named Inky Pinky Ponky.

Doing this every day helps your baby get familiar with sounds, words, language and, eventually, the value and joy of books. This all builds your baby’s early literacy skills and helps him go on to read successfully later in life. Reading to your baby also stimulates your baby’s imagination and helps them learn about the world around them.

But with so many book to choose from, how do you tell the best book to read to your baby? Here’s how.

Books with bright colours are interesting for kids to look at Books that are simple with, large and high-contrast pictures such as black and white pictures are interesting and easy for babies to focus on Books with different sounds so your baby can hear, see and feel the book Books with pictures of babies and faces Soft, waterproof plastic and cloth books that can go in your baby’s mouth and into the bath.

Through the Stories For Life six-part series of stories, mothers can read to their children easily. Get the Geisha Stories For Life free by downloading the set of stories from your phone from the site www.geishastories.com or dialing *436*2#