Share a love of reading with your entire family.It’s imperative to encourage reading in your family. Fight colds and flu with Hydralyte. Rapid and complete hydration, suitable for all ages and doctor recommended. Use code “hydrakid” to save 30% - sponsor Reading to your young child can boost vocabulary and reading skills before entering school. Cultivating a love of reading in your older children can open up a world of imagination and opportunity. Time spent reading with your infant is actually conversation time. You can still read the words in the board book, but interact with your child by talking about the pictures. Make time to read as a family. Younger children will enjoy the tale. Look up information about topics with older children to learn more about the story. Build excitement for reading by taking your child to get a library card. Encourage older children to belong to a book club. Share books that are meaningful to you so you can discuss them. Make reading important in your home. Listen as Dr. Corinn Cross joins Melanie Cole, MS, to share how you can create lifelong readers. Book recommendations from Dr. Cross: Picture books The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba (teenager from Malawi who makes a windmill and helps save his village) Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews (famous musician as a child) The Little Piano Girl by Mary Lou Williams (Jazz legend as a child) Salt in His Shoes (Michael Jordan as a child ) Goodnight Gorilla Sam’s Sandwich Young Readers The Rickshaw Girl  Anne of Green Gables  Little Women  Little House in the Big Woods (the Little House on the Prairie series) Fudge series and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers Pippi Longstocking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda by Roald Dahl Chronicles of Narnia A Wrinkle in Time Secret Garden Wolves of Willougby Chase The Little Princess Harry Potter series  Rebecca Wonder by RJ Palacio (about a boy with facial anomalies -- going to be a movie soon) Sponsor: Fight colds and flu with Hydralyte. Rapid and complete hydration, suitable for all ages and doctor recommended. Use code “hydrakid” to save 30%