At the end of last year, when the Government threatened to withdraw all funding from the Bookstart scheme, there was public outcry, with the result that the scheme is to continue - albeit with reduced funding. Everybody knows, it seems, that books are really important for babies and young children.
In many settings babies, young children and practitioners share books every day. Attractive book corners mean children choose to look at books for pleasure. Practitioners talk with parents about favourite books, sing rhymes and tell stories, as well as sharing books with groups of children and sending storysacks and boxes home with parents.
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