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Nurtures emotional development and improves self esteem.

Offers laughter and entertainment and an alternative to television.

Improves problem-solving and critical-thinking skills that are fundamental and transferable to all other areas of learning.

Increase life span by virtue of correlated education, employment, and higher quality of life.

Improves future probability of employment and higher quality of life.

Improves a child's probability of staying in school.

Increases a child's vocabulary and grammar, and has the potential to improve writing skills.

Creates empathy toward other people, because literature values humanityĪnd celebrates the human spirit and potential, offering insight intoĭifferent lifestyles while recognizing universality.

Provides the child with a reading role model.

Contributes to background knowledge for all other subject areas, including science, history, geography, math, and social studies.

That is necessary in order to maintain reading as a lifelong activity

Conditions the child to associate reading with pleasure, an association.But all of these are sweet in their own way. But that one sentence is a poetic little verse full of rhythm. How simple is simple? Each book is just one sentence long. How sweet is sweet? The books features babies of all colors happily doing baby things. How short is short? Four spreads (two pages = 1 spread) apiece. What makes these books special? Well, they're short, sweet, and simple. (Barnes & Noble, for example, has the gift set-due to be released this December-for $7.99) I believe they are available individually and as a collection.

(They were originally published in 1987). Simon & Schuster is reprinting these four classic books written and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.

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