Have time to run to the Canadian border

I heard on the radio that children need to be taught to read from a very early age. That's what they said, start reading books to your child from the age of two... But what to do before the age of two? Hm? They didn't say that. Probably, "don't deprive your child of childhood", as some grandmothers and other leading experts in education say. Sorry, this is personal...

And modern books for the little ones are masterpieces of publishing art! How to capture the minds of children and attract the attention of parents? Russian folk tales have been published a million times with illustrations for every taste, what else can be done new? Fierce competition forces publishers to come up with new moves, and this is great! Because now children get not just a fairy tale, but a toy book, and what special effects are not there: windows, stickers, lacing, puzzles, theaters ... I myself would play and play! Well, actually, I play, thanks to the child for my second childhood.

I also really like the multitasking element of these toy books: you need to simultaneously perceive the text by ear and perform some task with your hands, developing fine motor skills along the way. So "The Turnip" turns into a whole performance, "Where Did the Sparrow Have Lunch?" into a risky attraction, and encyclopedias with windows unobtrusively prepare the ground for Perelman's "Entertaining Physics", and from there it's not far to MIT... The main thing is to start on time, grandmas.