1. Children love looking at picture books with their parents and listening to the stories. It makes them feel safe and protected.
2. Picture books help children to start talking and develop reading skills.
3. Picture books teach children to observe and become aware of their own feelings. Having stories read to them regularly helps them to express themselves.
4. Reading picture books is an activity which can be shared at any time and on any occasion.
5. Picture books stimulate the imagination. They encourage children to invent and investigate, to explore and discover the world around them.
6. Picture books introduce children to new and different experiences, and new experiences help them to grow.
7. Picture books are tiny works of art which teach children that there is more than one way of telling a story.
8. With their simple texts and striking illustrations picture books make it easier to start reading.
9. Each time children read a book they discover something new: new ideas, new words, new attitudes.
10. The stories in picture books are lovingly told and always there to come back to. They can last a lifetime and be read over and over again.

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