Reading with your baby at bedtime is fabulous. Some books, like Night-Night, Baby, seem to beg to be read curled together in a chair, with just a circle of light on the page. There's nothing not to love about that classic image of reading with your child.

But why limit it to bedtime? With an older child, one who reads on his own, one session of reading aloud at night may be ideal. But most book time for babies, toddlers and preschoolers comes when one of their caregivers picks up a book and starts to read. If your goal is to make books an integral part of your baby's life, then here are a few ways to bring reading into every part of her day.

Create new reading rituals

Bath and meal times are perfect places to add a few books. You can read a book like Splish-Splash while you child plays in the tub. Once he's feeding himself, you can share a book like All Gone while he's picking up pieces of cereal.  Leaving books stacked by the high chair or near the tub encourages your caregivers to pick them up too.

Don't imprison your books on the shelves.

There are worse thing to have cluttering up your house than books, and if there's a basket of them on the floor or an extra stack under the coffee table, it's easy to grab one any time your little one might feel like crawling into your lap for a snuggle. There should be books for your baby in every room in the house. They can go in the drawer where you keep kitchen playthings and join the stack on your bedside table.

Make sure he can reach them.

His books should be as easy for him to get to as his toys. Kids' books are made sturdy so they can stand up to all kinds of love (including being stood on). If your baby is having tummy time, leave Hello, Baby! out for him to gnaw. If he crawls or walks, there should be books ready for him to crawl or walk to. Once he can hold a book, offer one to him in his car seat or stroller, or give him a small one like One, Two to look at while you change his diaper.

Keep the interaction flowing.

It's important that your child have the time and space to look at his books on his own, but sometimes he won't want to. Those may not always be moments when it's easy for you to sit down and devote yourself entirely to reading. One great thing about these little books is that they take only a few minutes to read aloud (and about the same amount of time to memorize). You can stop to quickly read a book, then let him look at the pictures on the floor while you make dinner and talk about what he's seeing. You're still reading together even when you're not sitting with him and turning pages.  The books aren't limited to a special ritual—they're just a part of everyday life.