As an early childhood educator for all of my adult career, I have always been an advocate of reading to children, and in particular, reading to babies. Up until I became a grandmother, reading to babies was a theoretical focus. I certainly read to my daughter as a baby, but I had never been a teacher of infants. The first couple of times that I tried to read to my grandson, he cried. This was, of course, not my intended outcome, but I persevered and discovered that there may actually be some steps to coming to love books. Knowing that we seldom make generalizations from a population of one, here is what I discovered from one baby’s journey with books.