
Turning pages, shaping futures with National Young Readers Week
Christian Peterson
news@greenepublishing.com
Reading is important. This sentiment has been preached for decades, and every parent is told that reading to and with their children is important. It has a plethora of benefits, including improvements to social and cognitive function. A recent study by Ohio State University showed that children who are read five books a day before they enter kindergarten will have heard roughly 1.4 million more words than kids who are never read to. “Even kids