Also, with cartoons, kids can make up the character’s voices in their own heads, furthering creativity and the lessons that are being taught in books and stories. A child can sometimes even relate better to a cartoon character in an eBook or hard-copy book that he or she can hold; real human relationships can sometimes feel scary and intimidating. Cartoon characters’ actions are safe and predictable, and they never tell a kid to clean up their room! Cartoons can offer an interesting, new perspective to the minds of children when accompanied with simple words and tales. Seeing a picture of an apple with a worm coming out of it, for instance, speaks volumes to the human brain, and when you put a human face on the worm and make it either smiling or frowning, then a potential story is off to the races in the mind of a child.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of cartoon books around for teaching kids. The trick is to find the ones that impart the lessons and emotions you would like to share with your kids. Books such as The Adventures of Professor Beetoven deal with the universal ideas of friendship, responsibility, adventure and do so with colorful characters that your children will remember for a very long time.