Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Early Years Bookgifting and Shared Reading

Chair: Carol McDougall, Global Network Working Group, Canada
Presenters:
Emmi Jäkkö: Lukukeskus (Finnish Reading Centre)
Lukulahjalapselle, a Book Bag for every baby: feedback from health care officials and families from the second round of evaluation
Izumi Satou: Bookstart Japan
The Health and Wellbeing rationale for the founding of Bookstart Japan, and the qualitative approach to evaluating parent-child relationships.
Reinhard Ehgartner: Buchstart Österreich, (Österreichisches Bibliothekswerk, Austria)
Books and reading aloud on prescription: a new project for Austria