Babygrowz Book Club

Today we launch our very own BBC- the Babygrowz Book Club.

                                              Join us every Wednesday to: 

• Learn about the many benefits of books for your baby
• Read reviews of new baby story books
• Share your own favourite books
• Win books
• Read reviews of Parenting and Pregnancy books

 With the advent of E-readers there is a fear that reading an actual book will become a lost skill, but nothing can quite compare to the amazing feeling of your little one snuggling in to you as you settle down together to read a favourite story-bonds are built and memories are made through reading books.

           But for this week let’s start with a lovely poem which, I think, says it all:

Booknook
by Joyce Dunbar

Come,

Find a nook,

Snuggle up

With me

And a book.

We will gaze and ponder

Dream and wonder

At other lives

In distant times

And faraway places,

'Tell me again,' you will say,

'Just one more,'

And I will.

Like so,

Here, right now,

From the great,

Gi-normous,

Story store,

You, me,

A nook,

And the

Mind-widening,

Heart-opening,

Eye-shining,

Skin-prickling,

Tummy-tingling

Face-changing

Oh, so potent

Page-turning

Magic,

Of a book

Booknook, which comes courtesy of, and was created specially for, Bookbite, is a short poem for you to enjoy reading aloud with a child. It is dedicated to Lara Jones, the award-winning illustrator of I Want a Mini Tiger and the Poppy Cat series. Sadly, Lara died in March 2010, aged 34.