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Better Beginnings provides every Western Australian preschool child with a free Preschool Book Box, designed to support families in sharing the joy of reading together.

What’s inside the Preschool Book Box?

Each box includes:

Better Beginnings provides every Western Australian baby with a free Baby Book Box, designed to support families in sharing the joy of reading together from birth.

What’s inside the Baby Book Box?

Each box includes:

All Western Australian schools and community Kindergartens are invited to participate in the Better Beginnings Kindergarten program. Free reading packs are provided to every Kindergarten aged child to take home.  The reading pack includes: 

Better Beginnings encourages all families to Read, Talk, Sing, Write and Play with their child every day.  

To become a successful reader, a child needs to develop all three of the following skills: 

Better Beginnings suggests a range of options for delivering the Kindergarten program to local schools. Libraries can choose which delivery models will work best for them and their schools. This flexible approach acknowledges that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and allows libraries to make their own decisions.  Some details about common delivery models, along with downloads to useful resources which may assist you in your chosen delivery model, are outlined below. 

The Toddler pack has been designed as a touch-point for children aged two years old and provides a link between the existing Better Beginnings Baby and Kindergarten packs. Like the other Better Beginnings resources, the pack aims to support family literacy and continues to promote the key Better Beginnings messages, encouraging parents to read and sing with their children every day and visit their local public library.  

The Toddler pack includes:  

Better Beginnings encourages all families to Read, Talk, Sing, Write and Play with their child every day.   

Toddlers are learning new concepts, words and gaining new skills every day.  The pace of development is rapid at this age.  In fact, by the age of 3 years old, a toddler’s brain is 75% the size of an adult brain!   

The Toddler Program is delivered by Child Health Nurses in partnership with their local Public Libraries.

Better Beginnings encourages all families to Read, Talk, Sing, Write and Play with their child every day. 

As library practitioners, we recognise that a child's first and most important teacher is their parent. 
We know that literacy begins at birth and that seventy five percent of brain development happens in a child's first three years of life. As such, a library’s role is to: