When a child is born, the first thing that they learn is what they are looking at. They are able to identify their mother, father, and other every day things almost instantly. However, if you put a word in front of them, they wouldn't have the slightest idea what those squiggly things were. One of the first things an infant learns is different words. Even before they are able to speak the words, and long before they are able to read or write them, they can identify the sound that someone makes and what they are referring to when that particular sound is made. For this reason, children's books are more important than would be expected. What a child is looking at when his/her mother flips through a picture book is what they will learn. The words that are printed in a children's book must be picked carefully and perfectly line up with the images on the page above, because the child could care less about what the words say when he is looking at the pictures, but is still listening to the reader tell the story.

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