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The family is the first and basic educational environment, there the basic standards and moral principles are passed, and also defined attitudes and habits to people and things are shaped, finally, here is the beginning of human interests. Family environment also plays an important role in shaping the relationship of a young man to a book.This article presents the value of a family in the development and strengthening of reading activity of children and the youth. Family plays here an important role, since from the earliest years of a child's life, it has a chance to create positive experiences resulting from a contact with the book. Such situations can arise in a family in which parents find reading enjoyable and pass it on spontaneously to their children.