There’s plenty of reasons to read to toddlers. Finding the perfect children’s book can be difficult. However, it can be accomplished if you know what you’re looking for and why reading to your toddler is so important.
What’s one important trait you would like to help your child develop? If you’re like many other parents, you want your child to be intelligent. It’s normal parents want their children to be smart, successful, and able to stand on their own two feet. Which is why we spend so much time making sure they are attending a good school, and their teacher is working hard to help them become more intelligent.
I’m sure most of us have heard how important reading to our children is-but do you know why reading to your toddler is so important. If you’re wondering why reading to your toddler is so important here’s a few reasons:
Speech Skills – Toddlers are like sponges, they soak up whatever information is presented to them. When they listen to their parents read books, they are learning the basic sounds and how to pronounce words.
Communication – Communication is important. When you spend time reading to the, it can help widen their vocabulary and teach them how to use words currently. Reading to your child will help them later when they have to learn how to read on their own.
Understanding Books - Nobody wants their child to head off to school and not completely understand what a book is and how it work. Reading to your toddler can help them learn what a book is and how it’s used. Which will help them when they are learning to read.
Bonding – This is one of moms favorites. There’s nothing better than having your child lay down with you, and cuddling up for a good story. Story time can help strengthen a parents and child’s bond even more. It’s quality time you’re spending with them and only them. Quality time is never a bad thing for parents or children.
Reading is Fun – Story time is fun, its a time when you child is listening to a story, and spending time with their parents. Early reading can help toddlers see books in a while new light, FUN! It takes away the feeling of it being a chore, and can help turn it into something they enjoy and are good at. It can help them read some, rather than spend all their time watching TV and playing video games.
Imagination – Reading a story is fun, putting your imagination to work turns a dull book into a story. Reading to your child can help them learn to imagine the story while reading. Learning to use your imagination while reading or being read to is what makes books better than movies in my opinion. If we read to our children at an early age it can help them learn how to use their imagination during story time, and when they get older they could head for the book before the movie.
There just a few reasons reading to your toddler are so important. There’s load and load more, but we’ll save that for another post.
Why finding books that get your toddler engaged can be a task, but have you ever tried to get a toddler to pay attention to an entire book? WOW, that can be a chore for sure, I’ve tried so many different books and we only make it so far before Mattie is done, no more she wants to play, get up, she just wants to do something else. Which is why I’m so excited to share the children’s book, Find Me If You Can.
Find Me If You Can is a super fun book that Mattie will not put down. Anytime anyone comes over to the house, she makes a bee line for her new book. She loves it, and looks forward to reading it every night, morning, nap-time and anytime she can talk someone into reading it to her. I think she almost has it memorized. Which is great, I’m excited we have finally found a book that she enjoys.
Fine Me If You Can is an awesome interactive children’s book with large, colorful pages, each page custom-made for each child. The pages are 8 1/2″ by 1″, and each page features a picture of your child’s face. The book is filled with fun, Mattie loves to find herself The first few days that’s pretty much all she cared about. She knows her big sister Vayda is in a book too, lol. So it’s extra cool for little Mattie to be like her idol Vayda.
The first few days I tried hard to read the book to her, but she just wanted to find herself. That’s what the books all about, the fun of finding your face mixed in with tons of other faces. The book is somewhat like “here’s Waldo”, but rather than looking for Waldo you’re looking for you child face. It’s super fun, such a wonderful idea.
Find Me If You Can is an awesome children’s book. Mattie loves it, and her big sisters Vayda and Catie love to read it to her. When I give Mattie her book, I know I have a good 30 to 45 minutes of quite time. She doesn’t rip the pages our, write on it, or mess it up at all. Isn’t it funny how children cherish certain items, but others they will demolish in 2.5 seconds, lol. Either way I’m glad we were given the opportunity to bring Find Me If You Can home. Mattie loves it, and we finally have a book she will sit and listen to from start to finish.
Find Me If You Can not only is loads of fun, it’s educational and helps children and parents grow together. It has helped Mattie learn to be more focused when it’s story time too. I think she needed to understand what story time was about. It’s hard to explain to a 2-year-old what story time is about. It’s also helped encourage her to read, like I mentioned I think she has the book memorized. It’s really helped she actually recognizes some small words. Find Me If You Can has been very beneficial to mom, dad and Mattie.
Mattie’s Aunt Marley and Uncle Dennis came over for the Superbowl today. Remember how I told you everyone that comes over gets stuck reading to Mattie. Most of the time Marley was over, she spend time with Mattie reading Find Me If You Can. I love it when Mattie gets to spend quality time with her family.
Here’s a short video of Mattie and her first look at her new book Find Me If You Can. I didn’t realize how loud it is, lol. What can I say we were all very excited, beware you might want to turn it down. There are parts where Mattie gets very excited and screams pretty loud, lol.
If you’re in the same boat as I was, and need a book that will grab your toddler attention be sure and check out Find Me If You Can. It’s a great book for anyone that want to surprise their children with a fun book all about them.
Be sure to head over and visit Find Me If You Can on their website, like them on Facebook, and follow them on Twitter to stay up to date with everything. There’s several different options when you order. The book we received has the same picture listed on all the pages in the book. I figured this would be perfect for Mattie, single this is her first interactive book. You can also get Find Me If You Can with two images, three images, four images, and five images. Which is great for older children, guess what Vayda is getting for her birthday? I cannot wait, she loves to read. You can purchase Find Me If You Can starting at only $29.99.
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It’s great that you found a book that she will sit through! I agree, reading to toddlers is so important. I will say it was a chore trying to keep 30 of them engaged when I taught preschool! Interactive books certainly help, and this one looks great!
My son loves to read! He is just starting to be able to do seek and find books and he would LOVE something like this. Very cool!
What a fantastic idea for a book! Love it.
Nite-time was reading time when our kids were small. Sometimes they didn’t want a book read they wanted us to make up a story as we went all. Miss thoses moments !
Very good article. It is so important to read to your children as your article mentions. It helps them to develop good learning skills as well as intelligence. Luckily, my children loved to read when they were young and have instilled the same interests in their children as well.
I always loved story time with the kids. They both learned to read at an early age too.
What an awesome idea! I’ll get one for my step-grandson who is 2.
All these reasons listed are 100% true, fact,, correct, etc! I credit my parents for reading to me starting from a very early age for pretty much all the analytic and verbal skills I have today. Those skills and much more to be honest. This book seems very toddler-friendly, but most importantly, it’s a great book when the child actually likes to read it, repeatedly!
GREAT IDEAL–YOU ROCK
There’s no question that reading is one of the best things you can do for your child. y granddaughters remember every unique personalized boo I ever gave them
What a wonderful ideal, My son would love it.
My kids are no longer toddlers, but you have some great points in your review… book sounds great
This is an awesome book for kids!
This is so cool! My kiddo would love to see his own little face in a book
This is awesome! My 3 year old has a hard time going to his father’s for visits, and I have made a photo album for him to have pictures of me, his brothers and my husband with him. This book would be GREAT!!!!
Love the review. My youngest is older, however, with his ASD and ADHD, anything that I can find to hold his attention AND stretch his brain, is good!
This sounds like a neat book. Love to have one for my grandson. I believe I have time he is only 3 months. But I love this book!
I am going to share this with my future daughter in law she will love this and needs this desperately
I read to my son a lot when he was young. I even talked to him when he was in my tummy. My mom always said if you talk to them and read to them it makes them smarter. He was able to do numbers, letters, colors and shapes when he attended Kindergarten!
i need to get this book for my grand kids.. i can never think of any ideas.. thanks!
Reading is the best addiction I have. I’m trying to get my son to be addicted to reading too. Haha.
I’m so happy that my 17 month old daughter loves books. There are do many times she would rather”read” her books than play with her toys lol i berry she would have lots of fun if she had a book like this, do she could find herself.
I think this idea is so neat!!! My 4 year old would be so tickled to look through a book and try to find himself!
My granddaughter loves for me to read to her!!!
I am such a huge fan of reading… I used to get grounded from reading when I was younger lol because when I was supposed to be doing chores I was reading
I started reading to both of my girls when they were in my belly, and my daughter Olivia loves to read (well she is starting to learn but she loves to be read to), and we never leave the library with at least 7 books 
i have little girl who would love this sheis 4year old
My son loves books and this would be such a fun edition to our library.
Oh,, this looks like so much fun! My son would love it:)
I wish I had this when I was a kid!
One of my very fondest memories is of my mom and my grandmother reading the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and the rest of the books later (Prince Caspian, etc.). I remember that they would get to the end of the chapter and though I was so tired I would want more, but alas, the book would be closed and placed on the shelf on the headboard behind me to be read the next night. As I sit here typing this I have become accutely aware that my father never read to me. I find that rather sad. *shakes it off* I think reading to your children is a great way to encourage reading, but moreover it creates great memories and parent bonding or in my case grandparent bonding.
This book looks so cool & neat my son would love to find himself on his very own book
What a wonderful idea! My kids would LOVE it! Thank you for sharing!
It is amazing what a difference reading can make! My niece was read to all the time, especially during her first year and a half, and her speech is developed far beyond most 3-year-olds.
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Building early foundations in vocabulary is really important. My son could pronounce geo-sphere by the time he was 2 and could tell you what a deciduous tree was at age 5.
Children “learn” to read until about age 8. Then they “read” to learn.” Early reading habits are key to success.
This review is fabulous. You are exactly right.Kids need to explore to get interested and then they will gradually reach the “I want to read” stage. I think books that include themselves are a wonderful tool to get little ones to read.
This book is so cool! My son loves books where you find things so the idea of finding himself would be awesome! I love that your daughter liked it so much and I’m sure my kids would feel te same!
Great idea – thanks for sharing!
I know for a fact that my great ability for reading, writing, and grammar is due to my mom starting to read to me at an early age. I highly recommend it for all parents!
I recently got one of these for my daughter! It’s way better than I imagined. I need one for my son!
This is a great review!My grandson would love this book.He would just love to see his self in a book.I love to read my self,and hope that my grandchilren takes up this hobby their selfs.
This is a great book and would even get a copy to read with my son who is 16 and has Aspberger’s syndrome.
I love this. I read to my toddler at least once a day. We have so much fun
I have to say, when my granddaughter comes to visit, I havent been able to find a book that holds her interest. Maybe this one would. It sounds like a great book, def worth checking out.
This is precious! My son would LOVE this – he is just getting into finding things, in books, games, etc. This is a perfect stash away gift! Had no idea about it at all…thanks for the review!
Wow that looks so cool, like a modern day “Where’s Waldo”,
i agree its veryn import to read to your kids. I started reading to mine before they were born. my twins are big readers and they would love a book like this
As a teacher, I know the benefits of reading books to your children. It appears very quickly which students have been introduced to reading and books. I agree with your list of the benefits of reading. I even believe that the reading of books to your children should start while the baby is in the womb. I would love to win this book for my grandson as I know that he would enjoy finding his picture on each page. I bet that he would have it memorized before we know it.
I also like how the book is personalized specifically for the child! Makes it extra interesting to read or be read to.
My grandson loves me to read books to him. He loves the find me type of books . He has so much fun searching for them and he insists I dont help him either. Books have always been a important thing in my kids and grand kids life. Thats cause I love to read to. Its important to them.
This seems like a great book . I would love to sit with my daughter and read it tovgether , she would love it.
Love the book! Fantastic Idea!!
Great review. My grandson is 3 months but I can’t wait til we get to read books together. Thanks
What a great idea for a book. My kids love the Mickey and scooby doo find it books. They would absolutely love this! Thanks for the great idea and review!!
My grandson love these kind of books. He get to think and search and use his skills . Love them.
It builds a good relationship with you and your child and gets the ready for school and its good to reed to them at least 30 mins a day
I read the review and I agree with reading to kids a lot. I learned to read by mom reading to me..
I just absolutely love this . It’s a fantastic way to get books into children s hands. Thank you for this wonderful giveaway
This would be great for my grandson, because we live so far away from him to visit very often.
I agree reading is such a precious time that will become such treasured memories later on. I read to my oldest from the time he was 6 weeks old, and he is now reading almost 3 grade levels ahead of whats expected, and is excellent and verbal communication. People who meet my kids think they’re older because they talk like older kids. Reading is absolutely one of the best ways to help develop your child’s brain!
I agree, reading is such a precious time that will become such treasured memories later on. I read to my oldest from the time he was 6 weeks old, and he is now reading almost 3 grade levels ahead of whats expected, and is excellent and verbal communication. People who meet my kids think they’re older because they talk like older kids. Reading is absolutely one of the best ways to help develop your child’s brain!
I think reading is very important! I have a speech problem myself and I was worried my daughter would too! I read to her all the time even if it takes me a while. Reading is a fundamental tool that kids need to grow up and succeed in this society!
Funny book for the kids . Makes them sharpen and use lots of their skills. I like these type of books for my grand kids.
You gave such a great review on this book. the video of Mattie and her getting excited is so sweet. thanks
I love how personalized this is!
Awesome book for kids!
I agree – reading makes such a difference in development!
This book is so cute. Reading time is important for the child and the parent.
my grandson has a book about the 3 Little Pigs (not the original) but he loves that book, we have to read it several times every time he come over, these are great tips
my daughter has autism and she loves me to read to her she is nonverbal so we try to do this daily with her to help her begin to speak
I have a 2 year old and she loves the one on one time she gets while we read and learn together
These books are great! I love reading to my daughter, but I wish she liked it a little more than she does. It is kind of hit or miss when it comes to her wanting to sit there and listen.
My daughter would LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. She loves pointing and finding things. Nice article on the reasons to read to your children as well. It is SO important in their development.
You makesome great points in yur review. I love to read and kids lve for you to read to them
This is so, so cute and what a great way to bring your child and their friends together in a book. And such a great way of making them feel like stars!
I think that reading to your child will give them a head start in school. It also instills an interest that will go with them into adulthood for reading. It will help them in all aspects of their life if they learn to read and comprehend well
As a teacher I agree with so much of what you said. The importance of reading can not be stressed enough. I began reading to my children the day they were born. And though they are grown, Christmas Eve I still read to them the Christmas Story. + )
THANKS SO MUCH JULIE!!!! I agree I don’t think we stop to think about how important reading is, my aunt is a teacher and she reminds me all the time and I love it… it makes me stop and just how important it really is
Such a neat thing to do when you want some quality time with your child or even grandchild! Book is too cute.
My 2 year old son loves to read and he loves to look at pictures of himself (not sure if I should worried about that-lol) This book would be perfect for him.
How freaking cute! It’s like a personalized Where’s Waldo? I agree so much. Books are one of the most important things for children.
I have a niece that I am always trying to find a fun, unique gift for. This sounds like the perfect solution!! Thanks for the idea.
The cutest book ever!
What a cool book! My oldest is really into the finding books this year. Her attention gets positively absorbed. I bet she’d love this!