Nursery World - All about … picturebooks

Reinvigorate your appreciation of picturebooks with this why, what, how and where guide to selecting and using them. By Andy McCormack

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Picturebooks are a central artefact in the nursery world, and beloved by adults and children alike. They are the most commonly used resource by practitioners, reached for first thing in the morning and last thing in the aft ernoon, and oft en the teaching tool with which children are most familiar before setting foot inside their first nursery, Children's Centre or classroom.

They provide a cornerstone to the updated Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, which states explicitly that ‘it is… crucial for children to develop a life-long love of reading’ – and the ‘promotion of personal development… through literature’ is one of the sources of evidence Ofsted cites in its 2019 School Inspection Handbook for excellence in teaching and learning.

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