LSC 300 L
Literature for Children
Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven CT

CONTENTS:
Infants
Toddlers
Preschoolers
Five and Six Year Olds
Seven and Eight Year Olds
Nine and Ten Year Olds
Eleven and Twelve Year Olds
What is reading?
Tips for reading to children
Kids & Reading Home

Toddlers

Toddlers (18 months to 3 years)

• Like to read to same books over and over
• Look at board books
• Pick out their favorite book from a shelf
• Repeat Mother Goose verses by heart
• Explore the world by tasting, climbing, touching it
• Like short rhyming stories
• Like large, clear, realistic pictures
• Like to name objects in books and magazines
• Like bathtub books and toy books