Book Themed Baby Showers

Know someone in your life you need to throw a baby shower for?  Board books and children's picture books make great baby shower gifts...I gift those at baby showers all the time!  Can't think of a party theme to go with?  Check out this list of 17 book-themed baby shower ideas from HarperCollins Children's Books.  Of course all of the books have been published by HarperCollins, and that's OK because they publish great children's books!  Have fun and congratulations to the parents-to-be!

And, don't forget the library also offers Book Babies for ages 0-12 on Monday mornings at 10:15 a.m.  (However, we will be on a story time and program break staring August 22 and will resume on September 6.) PLUS, all new babies to the library (ages 0-12) can stop by the children's desk and pick up a Board Book Bundle courtesy of the Friends of the Library. It comes with a brand new board book, an early literacy book, and a rhyme booklet!

13 Things Babies Learn When We Read with Them

Babies learn so many things when they are read to such as: knowing that letters, words, and pictures all have meaning and that everytime they hear words, they learn about language.  What else may they be learning?  Here's an article from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, entitled 13 Things Babies Learn When We Read with Them.  Check it out.  You may be surprised all that's going on in their little brains!  And....keep on reading to your baby!