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Pleasure must come first aesthetic pleasure. Picture books are an art form involving both words and pictures. If you read the actual words while the baby or toddler looks at the pictures, you will be treating the work with joyous respect, as an art form. Of course you can also play the "labeling" game "Where is the shoe?" or "What's this?" the questions getting more difficult as the baby's language develops. This is fun too, and we all do it naturally. But I want to make a case for actually reading the words. It is certain that the baby won't understand many even most of them, but there is...