Books for a 3 year old: the age they fall in love with stories
If you have a three-year-old, you’re standing at the best window you’ll ever get.A three-year-old has just enough language to follow a story, a wide-open imagination to live inside it, and absolutely no self-consciousness yet about whether any of it is cool. They will happily hear the same book...
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When your child says “I hate reading,” it isn’t usually about reading
Every parent who has tried to raise a reader has heard it at some point. Sometimes shouted, sometimes muttered, sometimes delivered with the cold finality of a 7-year-old who has thought about it carefully.“I hate reading.”It’s one of the more terrifying sentences a parent can hear, especially after you’ve...
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Why we built Chennai’s largest children’s library – and how we choose every book
It’s a Saturday afternoon in Adyar. A four-year-old is pulling books off a shelf at random. Her parent is quietly doing the math (₹399, ₹450, ₹325) and putting most of them back. The two that make it home? One she loves. The other sits on the shelf for a...
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