Raising a reader = reading to baby…and toddler…and all the stages after.
I asked a question on Facebook: If you had to give just one book, what book would it be?
This post will focus on ages 3 to 8-years-old.
From Wendy: Richard Scarry’s Busy Busy Town for ages 3 and up.
[source: Amazon]
From Michelle: Audrey Penn’s The Kissing Hand ages 3-8
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From Jessica: Richard Scarry’s The Lowly Worm ages 4 and up
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Amazon says:Young children will happily follow Lowly as he takes an unexpected ride on a hot-air balloon; helps Huckle find just the right gift for Mother Cat; and gets lost on a subway during a visit to the city.
With everything from bike crashes to a big birthday surprise, these stories show exactly why Lowly is one special worm!
Another from Jess: The Jesus Storybook Bible ages 4 and up
[source: Amazon]
From Mrs. Tucker: Bruce Degen’s Jamberry ages 4 and up (although, I can testify younger kiddos love this book as well)
[source: Amazon]
Omgosh, I love that book!
Do you have a favorite that you love to read or give as gifts?
Share in the comment section!
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You’ll love this one too Patti: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0745945937
Oh Jonna, I just love getting a new book…for FB or for me!
I was not familiar with that one but they read it last week during church during the children’s time, and then she incorporated it into her sermon. What a wonderful book!
We are all book readers around here from Amara, to her parents and us! I love that her Daddy has read to her every night since she was born and still does. Now that she is older he reads her a story and then she reads to herself for a while. Sometimes Mommy forgets to go in and tell her to turn off the light! One of her favorite things to do is to go to the used bookstore. My favorite book continues to be Alice in Wonderland! It was my favorite as a girl and is my favorite as a grandma.
Oh, a used bookstore. Be still my heart! I hope FB enjoys books as much as we did when Boy was an itty-bitty.
Some more favorites from our house: “Doggies” by Sandra Boynton (a counting and barking book, that one can be from Dexter, best read with sound effects), and the cutest cutest book in the book fair at my kids’ school was this one:amazon.com/Press-Here-Herve-Tullet/dp/0811879542/ref=lp_2578999011_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1358206261&sr=1-5. It’s very clever.
Oh Jonna, I LOVE Sandra Boynton! I will look this one up. Thanky!
Toooooo many books to list! Off the top of my head, I remember that we loved: Go Dog Go! (read it until it fell apart) by P.D. Eastman, The Going to Bed Book and Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boynton, the Spot books by Eric Hill, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.
I have recently discovered Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems…my first graders LOVE them!
OMGosh! So many of our favs too! I haven’t heard of the books by Mo Willems, but will check into them. Thanks!
I get teary every time I read the Kissing Hand. I love to read and hope someday my little man loves to read also. It makes me giggly at night during tuck in as we negotiate the book reading quantity vs story telling (we read books, brush our teeth, turn out the lights, and then tell stories as we drift off).
I miss those days…