Boek. Start for Babies • Reading advancement programme for young children (02) • Goal: to bring parents and babies into contact with books and reading by establishing links between them and the Library • Boek. Start is the start of a continued reading process
Started in 2008 • An initiative of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), national coordination by Stichting Lezen (Foundation for the Promotion of Reading) and Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands) • Focus on the Library having an active role • Collaboration with municipalities, child health centres, daycare centres and book shops
Reasoning • Children who read do better in society, From: Read or not to read: Scientific research by Suzanne Mol (Dec 2010) • Each dollar invested in early childhood education yields 9 dollars, Nobel Prize winner James Heckman • Reading to children improves linguistic development, Kunst van Lezen, Kees Broekhof (Dec 2011) • Book. Start stimulates parents to initiate verbal interaction with their baby, Heleen van den Berg (Feb 2015)
Status • Baby around 3 months old: parents receive a voucher from their municipality for a free Library membership for their baby • Free Boek. Start case with 2 free books • Almost all Libraries in the Netherlands are participating • 54, 000 cases were picked up in 2014; 30% of all babies born
Ph. D research Boek. Start makes babies smarter • Research into the effects of Boek. Start by Leiden University (Heleen van den Berg/ Adriana Bus) • Interim results for 2012: comparison between Boek. Start children and children who are not yet familiar with Boek. Start • Final results: spring 2015 • Thesis:
Results on parents Boek. Start parents: • read to their children more often • visit the Library more often • talk to their children more and use more varied vocabularies • know more about the available books • continue to read to children with behavioural issues
Results on children • Boek. Start children watch less television • Boek. Start children want to be read to more • Boek. Start children with behavioural issues benefit even more from Boek. Start
Boek. Start in Daycare Centres • Extension of Boek. Start for Babies in 2011 • For children (0 -4) in daycare centres • Aim: to bring children, parents & childcare employees into contact with books and reading by establishing links between them and the Library • 2014: 15% of the daycare centres participates
Benefits for Daycare Centres • More in-house expertise • Good climate for reading to children is part of the pedagogical requirements of daycare centres • Establishing a clear profile • Tapping into new resources
Benefits for the Library • More Library members • More in-house expertise • Increase in purchased services • Visibility • Tapping into new resources
Central elements • An attractive place to read in the daycare centre • The development of a collection of first books • Professionalisation of childcare workers • Involving parents • Plan for reading aloud so that reading aloud is given a permanent place • Cooperation with partners in a network to promote reading
Quote childcare worker ‘Twice a year, we have an inspiration afternoon with the Library and we regularly ask which books fit into a certain theme. We used to just check out a book every so often, and that was that. Now, we’re reinventing the wheel together. ’
For more information • boekstart. nl (parents) • boekstartpro. nl (professionals) • leesmonitor. nu (research)
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