The colorful reading rug is already waiting. The group leader puts a pile of books on the rug. Children between the ages of two and four make a run for the books, showing each other pictures, laughing and talking about them in Turkish, Spanish, or German. The language Babel is no problem for them.

"With books, they have found an immediate communal theme“ according to the reading animator. “The pictures offer subject to talk about and promote understanding and in the end promote reading”. Today’s theme is houses. Who live in an igloo? Who in a tent? The children, together with their reading animator look in the books for various houses and their owners.

Later the children receive their own „house“, in the form of an envelope, but only when they knock do the residents show themselves, here a man, there a pig. This causes vibrant discussions and comparisons.

In the playgroup Kleinhüningen the reading animation becomes routine after the reading animator of the GGG public library trained the group leader.

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