Nursery World - Nursery Equipment: Book corner

Creating a book corner gives children a dedicated space for reading and promotes language learning. Jean Evans explains.

Design and stock your book corner with care and imagination and you will open up a raft of opportunities for young children to listen and chat, absorb a rich vocabulary, and experience language in its various functions and forms.

A good book corner will:

With these things in mind...

Position the book corner in a quiet area, away from the rest of the room, with comfortable flooring and seating. Drape walls and display boards with attractive fabrics in plain colours rather than busy designs that could distract, or enclose the area with light floating fabric draped from the ceiling. Make sure that the environment reflects the age of children using it and presents positive images of different races, cultures, genders and disabilities. Ensure that there are bold signs and captions on displays, bookshelves and resource boxes, to reflect the purpose of print in the environment.

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