A pilot study (using the case study, or field research format) examined the acquisition of behaviors in infants who are read to and with on a consistent basis from their first day of life through the first year. Three parent/infant teams participated in a year-long course which consisted of reading "familiar" books to the infants, beginning with their day of birth. As the infant began to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of the parent's voice and repetitive language with that of the familiar book, parents began to add new books to the reading sessions, thereby increasing the child's listening library. The parents logged the reading and attitudinal behaviors exhibited by the infants, and at monthly group meetings reading/listening interactions were video-taped. Data was categorized into specific behavior characteristics of the affective, visual, tactile/motor, and verbal modes. Results of this study verify that infants in the first months of life exhibit signs of pleasure and security in positive reading situations. They also acquire reading-like behaviors, and their first words reflect their listening vocabulary. (General guidelines for the parents, a list of behaviors to chart, collectively charted behaviors for the infants in this study, a chart of age span levels, and 16 references are appended.) (MM)