Want kids to get interested? Leave books laying around

Ever since my older son was a baby we had books around. Not only baby books but wonderful and richly colored and pictured animal books. Books on people, places, building with Legos, and babies eating. Leaving my own resources around and accessible to the kids allows them to thumb thru things they might find interesting, pictures that catch their eye.

Here it seems baby girl has a thing for spiders! She loves them. I picked up 2 library books on trap door spiders and jumping spiders - he wants to read them every night. These books aren't her level, they have 2 pictures on the open pages and are copy heavy, but she loves hearing about how the spiders live, where try lay eggs, and what they eat.

She's learning about things beyond the book subject too:
-- like research, when mommy looks up a new bug to our collection,

--concentration and patience as she thumbs thru this 250 page reference books to find more spiders

-- she sees there's MORE in the book then just spiders, finding literally thousands of insects!

Kids are sponges, we just need to give them access.

Want kids to get interested? Leave books laying around, a photo by areyousureaboutthatblog on Flickr.