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Share your top tips for reading with toddlers and win £300 worth of books NOW CLOSED

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EmilyMumsnet · 29/06/2015 16:07

Every parent loves to snuggle up with the kids and a good book - but a strong case of the fidgets can often bring a reading session to a (literal) screeching halt.

This week we're asking you for your top tips for reading with babies and toddlers. What do they enjoy? What do you enjoy about the experience?

Baby Campbell's brand new series of finger trail books are the perfect interactive reads for curious children, designed for ages six months and up, each page has finger trails cut in, which follow the story across the page and there are lots of flaps to lift.

Share your tips and you'll be in the running to win a year's supply of adult books and a year's supply of children's books, courtesy of Baby Campbell. You can choose 48 books from a selection of titles on the Pan Macmillan website, up to the value of £300.

This competition is now closed. The winner will be contacted shortly

Share your top tips for reading with toddlers and win £300 worth of books NOW CLOSED
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ktmd · 29/06/2015 18:07

Choose tactile, textured stories with sparkles and simple, bright illustrations. Act out the story and choose repetitive text so children can anticipate what's coming. Above all, enjoy!

Ardagh1 · 29/06/2015 18:07

Read books as soon as they show an interest around a year..spend time each day looking at the books talk about the story and point out parts of the pictures,talk about the colours and shapes and they will soon pick up a book and bring it to you themselves

CMOTDibbler · 29/06/2015 17:45

Silly voices, reading with your whole body ( hands, face etc), and rereading books so they get to know bits

TheyGotTheMustardOut · 29/06/2015 17:40

Start young is the best tip, I think; I started reading to my eldest as soon as we got home from the hospital!

A little patience goes a long way and so do funny voices! When he was very young, barely able to turn over, he really liked exaggerated faces and over the top voices, those things help keep his attention.

As he got older, he would get distracted by anything and that's where the patience came in, I needed to judge when I could pull him back into the stories and when to let him pursue another interest. I never want him to feel like he is being forced to read books.

Now stories are an integral part of bedtime and he also asks to read at other times of day too. We go to the library regularly and my youngest son is also growing up loving books.