The first national

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• The first national
• books-for-babies
• programme in the world

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Bookstart

• Bookstart is built on a simple premise-
• babies who have an early introduction to books
  benefit in lots of ways, educationally, socially,
  culturally and emotionally.
• Bookstart is about partnership.
• and love of books is a gift for Life.

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The Research

• In 1992 Booktrust commissioned research into a
  pilot project with 300 babies.
• Upon joining school, Bookstart children were
  found to be ahead of their peer group in all nine
  baseline assessments including numeracy.
• At age seven, Bookstart children were found to
  have maintained this advantage over time and were
  still ahead of their peer group.
  

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Benefits to the child

• Parents as first educators
• Language and communication skills
• Listening skills and attention span
• Bonding and emotional intelligence
• Foundations of literacy
• Increase in school readiness

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• Our study has shown that the home environment
  can really make a difference what the parents do
  with the child is more important than the
  parents educational qualifications..Education
  matters, qualifications matter, but if they read
  to the child, play rhyming games, sing songs,
  talk about letters and sounds, and take the child
  to the library, these behaviours at home are more
  important and can compensate for a low education
  level
• Prof. Kathy Sylva
• EPPE
• Effective Provision of Pre school Education 2003

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Milestones

• UK birthrate is approx. 670,000 per annum
• 1992 300 babies
• 1999-2000 Sainsburys Bookstart
• 2001 Introduced new model of Bookstart
• Since 1999 Bookstart has given away 4,000,000
  books

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Partners in Bookstart

• Central Government
• Local Government
• Commercial sponsorship
• Booktrust

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The Bookstart Commitment

• As partners in Bookstart, we aim to provide
  every child in the UK with Bookstart packs of
  free books and guidance materials.
• We are committed to promoting the idea of early
  book sharing and seek to give every child the
  opportunity to develop
• a life long love of books.

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Parents identify favourite Bookstart Books
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Bookstart Book Crawl

• 1,282,000
• visits to libraries

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Extending Bookstart

• And because it is our basic belief that every
  child should have the opportunities, today
  available only to some, we will extend the
  Bookstart scheme and at 9 months, then at 18
  months, then at age three, provide free books
  universally for every child. For almost 2 million
  children a year, their first introduction to
  learning - an investment not just in every child
  but an investment in the future of our country.
• Chancellor, Gordon Brown

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Bookstart
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My Bookstart Treasure Box
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• Books 4,200,000 per year
• Packs 2,100,000 per year

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Bookstart Booktouch

• For blind and partially sighted children 0-4
  years
• Initially funded by the Roald Dahl Foundation
• Developed with
• Clear Vision and RNIB
• Gifted 303 packs

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Bookstart Around The World

• Bookstart Japan
• Bookstart Korea
• Bookstart Thailand

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Bookstart- first in the world