I started reading bedtime stories to my baby from 1.5 months (he's now 6mths old). He responds very positively to this, smiling when I do silly voices etc. It's surprisingly difficult to find books with short stories without them being too short and over simplified. This is a great book for reading aloud and has a lot of subject variety. It's also little enough to be taken on holiday or to grandma's house. My only criticism is that we were sent the American version, which has some different vocabulary to the UK version.