The little ones and the book-object: the importance of reading in the process of humanization of children

Abstract

The present article is part of a bibliographic and documental research, whose objective was to understand the importance of reading for children from zero to three years old and, thus, understand how the insertion of the child in the world of literate culture, through access to books as a cultural object, can contribute to human development, especially the higher psychic functions, such as language, attention, and memory of the child in early childhood, in addition to enhancing the learning of the human act of reading, even in its embryonic gestures, creating the basis for the child to be an autonomous reader in the future. The research is based on the Cultural-Historical Theory, on authors in the field of childhood, and is also based on the official and guiding document for this stage of life, the National Curricular Reference for Early Childhood Education - RCNEI. It brings as results the articulation between the book-object and the development of the child, emphasizing the value of this contact in the most tender age, bringing possibilities to sharpen the desire and the need of the little one for reading, demonstrating the relevance of the educator to know the process of children development and his role as proposer of these humanizing meetings with the book, the reading and the literature.