Infants
- Enjoy action nursery rhymes
- Fall asleep to nursery songs and lullabies
- Copy actions of children in books
- Join in making sounds of animals in the books
- Relate book to real life
- Like to see babies in books
Toddlers
- Like to read the same books multiple times
- Choose their favourite book from the shelf
- Explore the world by their senses
- Like short stories which rhyme
- Prefers large, clear and realistic pictures
- Like to name objects in books and magazines
Preschoolers
- Use words to express themselves
- Struggle for independence, want to do things themselves
- Play around with language, singing, making sounds
- Fascinated by other children
- Enjoy simple folktales, but not fairy tales.
