Adults often say: "They are too young; they don't understand anything."
And yet, babies show a deep curiosity about books long before they can speak: they smell them, bite them, leaf through them, touch the pictures, listen attentively to the first stories.
In addition to taking care of their bodies, babies also need food for their imagination. Through images and narratives, the path to language, thought, and the world of words begins to open.
Against the trend that considers books simply as early school textbooks, Marie Bonnafé defends the joy of "reading for nothing": free reading without goals or purpose, born simply from the enjoyment of the story. Because there, in the first shared moments around a book, something much more than a habit is born. A deep cultural relationship with the written word is born.