my bro's kids are 8, 6 and 4 - and get books every year - have done since, well, before the eldest was born!! i bought them a heap of the scholastic disney collection (prolly about 50 books). when DH and I started TTC, we decided to start collecting books for our kidlets early - we've got 50 odd disney books, 40odd beginners dr seuss, alphabet and maths books, thomas, disney princess, care bears, pooh bear books... all are sort of geared at older kids - so when the Gremlin arrives, i'll be actively encouraging the board books so that we can start early!

fwiw - my DH is mildly dyslexic, as is my bro. DH and i talked it over and decided we wanted to encourage reading as much as possible as neither bro nor DH were shown to have issues until they'd basically been pushed out of the school system. with DH reading to our bubba - if he struggles, it will show our kidlets that it's ok to not be perfect kwim?