Stories play a very important role in the cognitive development of infants and young kids. It helps improving key areas like memory and language skills, it sparks curiosity which increases the child’s imaginative skills, and it gives the child new perceptions to the world around them every single time. Stories from different cultures will open a child’s mind to the variation around them and create a deeper understanding of people. In fact, over the years, stories are the major means of passing on tradition and history to the next generations.