Why you should read to your children

THEIR little eyes grow wide in wonder. Their hands clutch your arm as you turn the page.

Kids love it when you read to them and it is perhaps the one time, in a day filled with selective hearing, that you have their full and undivided attention.

Experts agree reading to kids is a wonderful thing.

Children's author and "literary ambassador" Hazel Edwards says children who have been read to have longer attention spans, more general knowledge, are more tolerant of differences and are better equipped to start school.

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