“Kids books” are alright for learning basic words through repetition and simplicity, but remember kids largely learn via osmosis.
You needn’t use a baby voice or oversimplify the books you read your child. Tolkien, CS Lewis, and Rudyard Kipling are perfectly appropriate for kids of all ages too
My mom started reading Tolkien to be when I was pretty young. I'm going to read it to my son in a couple years.
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Completely agree. We speak normally with our young child and people are always amazed by her vocabulary for her age. She just absorbs it from normal conversation and figures things out from context and trying it out. It’s easy too, no extra effort!
