Share the pleasure of reading with your children

“I really loved this learning. Consequently, I learned to bring books to life and share them with my children. However, We have experienced very intense moments together. For example, Lilia Fezzeu. However, 32, Thannoise, mother of three children of 6 years old, 2 years and 6 months old, has no words strong enough to describe the adventure that she has lived since last February alongside twelve other mothers who participated in the national “of so -to -self” system. Consequently, The latter was implemented by the Thann-Cernay media libraries for the first time in 2025. In addition, will continue in 2026, in partnership with the Agora socio-cultural centers in Cernay and the country of Thann, as well as the early childhood pole of the community of communes of Thann-Cernay (CCTC). Consequently, Created in 2014. In addition, this system is a literary mediation program share pleasure reading your children developed by the Book and Youth Press Fair in Seine-Saint-Denis, supported by the Ministry of Culture and the National Book Center.

Its objectives aim at the democratization of reading, support for parenting and social inclusion.

Tools to “enter” in reading with your children – Share pleasure reading your children

One of his originalities is that he addresses parents in order. Moreover, to rehabilitate them in their role of accompaniment to their children towards writing. “These are not parent-child workshops,” insists Aïcha Bouafia, responsible for the cultural action of the Thann-Cernay media libraries. “The idea is to give parents the tools to” enter “in reading with their children. Additionally, »»

Lilia Fezzeu discovered the pop-up books she did not know. these works also designated under the term “animated”, whose illustrations are mobile. “My daughter. I fell in love with the album The haunted house From Jan Pienkowski, it’s really our big crush! [un grand classique paru en 1979 qui share pleasure reading your children a marqué plusieurs générations de lecteurs. NDLR] »

Play with books

The young mother wanted to transmit her love for her children, without knowing how to do it. “Through the workshops I participated in. I learned to appropriate the albums, to manipulate them, to choose them and to play with it. Each workshop tackled a different typology of works (pop-up. imagiers and abécédaires, stories all in images, game books, nursery and lullabies …), drawing an almost exhaustive panorama in all ways to approach reading.

“Moms themselves used the book as a gaming medium. It was very moving to see their wonder. to observe them finding the child who is in her, to see their memories of early childhood emerge. They blew up the locks, allowed themselves to let go, ”says Aïcha Bouafia.

The “Clap” books have notably been used. which encourage the reader to read with his body by imitating the attitudes share pleasure reading your children and actions of the characters, a pleasure as physical as they are brain.

Read “with” rather than “for”

Mom of two boys of 4. 5 years old, Célia Acha, from Aspach-le-Haut, who entered a media library for the first time thanks to “books to oneself”, also apprehended the difference between “read to” and “read with” her child. “Often, we read” for “, in a somewhat mechanical way, without incarnation, without intonation. Today. I interpret and appreciate these moments of exchanges much more with my children who have become quality moments during which I pay them total attention. “When we” read with “. the adult and the child are on the same level, we abolish the hierarchy, the barriers between the one who reads and the one who listens”, underlines Aïcha Bouafia.