Moms Council: What Are Your Children's Favorite Books to Read?
What are your children's favorite books to read?
From Melisa Thorne:
Our bookshelves at home are teeming with books. I find that books that were given to us long ago are still read frequently. My favorite thing to do is sit with my girls and read to them.
Listing all of our favorites will be impossible, but here are the front-runners that my kids enjoyed over the years:
Birth to 2:
"Good Night Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
This story describe a bunny's bedtime ritual of saying "goodnight" to various objects in the bunny's bedroom: the red balloon, the bunny's dollhouse, the kittens and more.
The rhythmic prose and illustrations is what my kept my daughters requesting to read this story often. I remember opening the book to the center page illustration of the whole room and my daughters pointing to all the objects in the picture with their chubby little fingers.
"Big Red Barn" by Margaret Wise Brown
A lulling story about a day in the life of a barnyard where animals peacefully play and sleep. This story is perfect bedtime reading.
"Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place —a pigeon! As the pigeon pleads and begs his way through the book, the story prompts children to answer back. “NO!”
My youngest absolutely loved this book. It is so simple and she belly laughed at the responses given by the pigeon.
Ages 2–4
"Corduroy" by Don Freeman
This story is about little bear waiting to be purchased in a department store. A little girl named Lisa sees him and falls in love with him, but her mother says she doesn't have money to buy him and he's missing a button. After the store closes, Corduroy travels throughout the department store searching his missing button.
Baby Bear Pointing To His Bed - News
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As the pigeon pleads and begs his way through the book, the story prompts children to answer back. “NO!” My youngest absolutely loved this book. It is so simple and she belly laughed at the responses given by the pigeon. This story is about little bear
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Eleven months! - gerrod.com
It’s been a big month for Oscar, in baby terms at least. He’s developed new interests, new skills and experienced new things. We’ve had a really fun time watching his antics too! These stories are chiefly to help us remember this stage of his life, so apologies if it’s too detailed and baby-ish to interest anyone else.
Oscar’s had the coordination, but not the inclination, to wave for some time now. He restricted his waving to his favourite person: mirror baby. But days into his eleventh month he started waving consistently. He won’t wave on command mind you, unless the context is appropriate. Goodbye, hello, goodnight are all ok, as is “Mummy’s carrying me out of the room, so just in case I don’t see you again…”.
His shuffling has also become much faster. His technique is to sit upright with one leg crossed beneath him, and one foot on the floor with knee bent. Then he leans forward, puts his hands on the floor and uses his standing foot to propel himself forward. It looks a little gorilla-like and has elicited some laughs, especially from Aunty Chellsie. This opens up all new play opportunities like Marco Polo, where he has to scoot around the house until he finds us, and chasey with older children. He shows no interest yet in crawling ‘properly’. He’s also pulling himself to standing occasionally, and practices putting his water bottle up onto the coffee table and taking it back down again: just because he thinks he’s super talented for having worked out how to do so.
Swimming is going well, and he’s determined to impress his teacher (crush, perhaps?). Everytime he comes up from underwater he turns to her for some praise! “Did you see that, Heidi?”
Oscar’s pointing has come along in technique and emphasis. Where previously he would gesture with his entire hand (“Behold!”) he now extends his pointer finger. Sometimes it’s to mark his interest in an object, chiefly ceiling lights and fans, and other times it’s to demand that you take him to see something. He enjoys visiting the lime tree we planted for him in the backyard, points to ask you to take him there, then becomes disappointed and confused to find the tree is now bare. He points to the wall clock to be held up to hear the “tick tock”. He points to the bees that Nonni has stitched onto all the pillows in the house. It’s a bit like an easy game of Where’s Wally.
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