Abstract: An improved stiff-paged board book uses spacing structures between adjacent leaves to form small gaps which provide convenient finger holds that facilitate turning of individual pages by young children. The gaps allow single pages to be turned easily irrespective of where they are grasped by a reader and reduce the tendency of pages to stick to one another. Spacing structures are formed by affixing a solid block to a leaf, by impressing a protrusion into the leaf, or by embedding magnets in the leaf with like polarizations facing adjacent pages.