Picture Books Really Do Teach Toddlers

Reading picture books to 18- to 30-month-old toddlers helps them learn things about the real world, psychologists find.

One of the hardest tasks a child must learn is how to relate symbols to the real world. It’s not clear to scientists exactly how early in life this process begins. But it seems perfectly clear to parents. By the time their children are a year old, most parents spend a lot of time reading to them from picture books.
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