It is the stuff of conceptual and linguistic development (even though you might come to think it the stuff of something else entirely after the umpteenth rereading). Just remember that it is both contributing to the concepts and words your child knows already and laying the base for what comes next. Analogical thought builds within those well-worn pages, and language development flourishes. When you speak to your children, you expose them to words that are all around them. A wonderful thing. When you read to your children, you expose them to words they never hear in other places and to
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