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Encouraging reading from a young age can make a difference in academic success, developing cognitive skills, creating emotional memories, developing critical thinking, and much more. Reading to children gives them powerful tools that will help them in the future at school, work, and life in general. Today, we share some of the benefits of reading for children and where to find great authors.
Among the benefits of reading to children are some as important as:
- Cognitive development. The ability to think and understand.
- Improves language skills – Knowing more words and their meaning helps you better understand the world and your place there.
- Facilitates Academic Performance – The more words there are in a child’s world, the more they will learn and will form better learning skills by the time they reach preschool, more prepared to read and understand the world.
- Create new emotional ties. Reading with your child helps you bond, creates a feeling of closeness and shared well-being, and fosters trust. Even with babies, hearing your voice helps develop their trust in you.
- Increases creativity and stimulates imagination. Books allow us to explore places and times and learn about people and adventures beyond our experiences.
- Cultivate a love of reading. When we share reading with a child, we stimulate the brain through a pleasant message. You could say that this message is a commercial that associates books with pleasure.
There are countries like Slovenia where literature is an everyday pleasure, and they are rich breeding grounds for great authors and illustrators of children’s literature. Furthermore, thanks to the initiative and collaborative work among editors, agents and distributers, the Slovenian children’s literature is already available in Mexico. Some of the texts we’d recommend you are «Los sabios hipopotamos» by Peter Svetina, «El Haditerrible en el Bosque Furioso,” by Jana Bauer or “Aquí cerca vive una niña” by Ida Mlakar Črnič.
Last December, the meeting, Voices of Slovenian Literature for Kids, took place in Mexico to reflect about the reasons for writing good quality children’s literature. The presenters also spoke about the multicultural collaboration between Slovenia and Mexico which will be promoted by the literary agency Most.
The director and editor-in-chief of the publishing house Malinc, Barbara Pregelj, and the writer of the children’s and juvenile literature, Peter Svetina, and special guests were present at the event. All received by the organizer of the meeting, the Slovenian author and cultural promoter based in Mexico, Barbara Vuga, the founder and director of the literary agency Most.
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Statement, Alan González S. ©
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