Research Findings: Home-based early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a popular form of small-group ECEC, with potential to facilitate high-quality conversations during shared book reading. To investigate how home-based early childhood educators (ECEs) take advantage of learning opportunities, educators read two storybooks with children (35.5-50.8 months old) in their ECEC. Because types of extra-textual talk used differ depending on book style, one book rhymed and its setting was local (New Zealand), so more personally relevant to the children. The other did not rhyme, and its setting was international (Africa), so less personally relevant. Home-based ECEs frequently made comments encouraging children to think beyond book content, although these varied between books. In the NZ/Rhyming book, educators talked more about print concepts and sounds, which may nourish emergent language and literacy skills, and used more talk relating the book to real experiences, potentially facilitating children's engagement. In the African/non-rhyming book, educators used more descriptions and inferences. This variation in comprehension-related talk may support children's cognitive and linguistic development. Practice or Policy: Home-based educators use a variety of shared reading strategies, which differed across books in ways that afford different learning opportunities. We recommend diversity in the types of books read with pre-schoolers to nurture emergent language and literacy skills.