Babies aged 0 ~ 6 need direct experience of life and indirect experience from other media. The more experience, the more children know about the world and the richer their imagination. Picture books just allow babies to explore the world without leaving their homes.
4 ~ 8 months old
At that time, the baby’s sensitivity to color is improved, and picture books with bright colors and simple lines are filled with a large number of color elements, allowing the baby to [have enough eye addiction].
Babies will show great interest in the colors and contents of picture books. As their understanding of graphics further improves, they will also try to connect graphic symbols with the real world.
At this time, the content of the picture book still does not need to be too complicated, they still cannot accept so much, and most of the content now still needs parents to read to them.
9 ~ 12 months old
At this stage, all kinds of picture books with bright colors and simple picture contents are not only used as tools to stimulate the visual development of babies, but also become [books], realizing their value as [books].
Babies already have a preliminary understanding of pictures and will have a connection with their surroundings. They hope to get some information from these symbols, but unfortunately, they generally cannot correctly understand the contents of these pictures or words.
At this time, parents can act as narrators, whether they can understand it or not, which is always good for the baby’s language development. If it is a book, you can give the task of turning over the book to your child and exercise their fine movements.
13 ~ 18 months old
At this age, the baby’s color recognition ability and graphic recognition ability have improved, and they will easily be interested in the color graphics in books. Moreover, babies in this period like listening to stories very much.
If parents can give full play to the charm of language and read stories with obviously changed intonation, it will make it easier for babies to concentrate and have a stronger interest in picture books.
24 months old
Although babies at this stage have further improved their understanding of graphics, they will also try to connect graphic symbols with the real world, but they still cannot understand too complicated picture books and handle too much information.
Most of the content still needs parents to read it to them. You can use more questions to guide your baby to pay close attention to the development of the plot.
36 months old
At this stage, the baby can’t accept too complicated text content. Picture books need to enable the baby to read and have the opportunity to [look at pictures and talk], preferably simple and easy-to-understand content.
If the baby’s understanding is wrong, parents can point it out at the right time and tell them how to understand it. However, we must pay attention to the words and don’t make them like debates, which will hit the enthusiasm of the child.