If you bring your children to story time, they will have the benefit of meeting other local children and practice positive social skills.  

When they participate in the stories, songs, rhymes and finger-plays, they’ll develop greater language, listening, and motor skills. 

They might even ask you to read to them at home more often.

When you expose them to reading on a regular basis, both at home and at the library, it will help to cultivate a healthy appetite for reading and using the library.

 So they’ll probably ask you to read to them more and more. 

You’ll bring them back to story time, and the reading, songs, finger-plays and crafts will stimulate imagination, which helps with problem solving later in life…

When you bring them back to the library, you’ll notice that reading together as part of a group experience encourages them to respect other children and the storyteller as well as library materials.

They’ll start asking you to take them to the library for story time.

And chances are if they ask you to take them to story time, they’ll be well on their way to becoming lifelong readers.