Stories play a vital role in the growth and development of children and are a great way to introduce new words into a child’s language.

The great thing about learning through stories is that the process is done in a natural way. There’s no actual teaching involved at all as they learn from simply reading the story or listening to someone read it to them.

Stories help to develop a child’s imagination by introducing new ideas into their world. Ideas about different places, the universe, different times in history and invented characters. Children will realise that they can imagine anything they want. Be it realistic or fantastical.