OMA ma,
wow! quite a story on the reading part to your son...
I read to my bb all kind of books since she's only half years old and she loves to hold books and read and check out the photos also...
and for the Chinese one u ladies are talking about, I started to read the one with pitures to her when she's 1 yr old...she will point to the pitures and listen quitely to my reading...
I think it's a good sharing with the kids wor no matter they really understand right now but it's part of their learning and being together with mom :-P