Book Sharing: In-home Strategy to Advance Early Child Development Globally.

The authors suggest that the availability of books in the home that can be shared by parents or older siblings with young children will be an important component of any optimal early child development (ECD) strategy. Topics discussed include the likely reason that young children particularly value books, barriers to implementation of book-based interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and key to teaching parents to create optimal book-sharing interactions.