As a more helpful answer, in heavy rotation for the 15m old are
Big red barn How do I love you I'm a big brother The Little Owl series (day, night and snow. These are a household favorite!) Llama Llama Red Pajama Harry the Dirty Dog Noisy Farm Animals
Anybody have favorites for colors, shapes or just words in general? He's really into "educational" books right now.
But yeah, flaps are tough. Spot lost his closet doors almost immediately. Dear Zoo has seen better days, but I hate it so that's cool with me. And the cow on our noisy farm rarely moos. I tell him she's sleeping a lot, lol.
Somebody got us a Babies Love series lift the flap and it's awesome because the flaps are board thickness. Ironically, here's a barn example although ours is first words. The story is meh, but at least it's sturdy.
Post by redheadbaker on Feb 14, 2019 12:03:30 GMT -5
DS is 7.
He loves Pig the Pug, Captain Underpants, Eerie Elementary series, the Illustrated Harry Potter book, and the "Ordinary People Change the World" books.
OMG YES. I feel like we have about 50 or so board books (which is what we predominately read to S because he is still too rough with paper pages) and yet...how do I read through them all so many times in a week???
Right now S is obsessed with babies so he will ask for his "baby books" (anything at all to do with a baby--"good night new baby," "10 little fingers and 10 little toes..." etc) "quack quack books" (anything to do with farm animals) and "truck books" (any books that have trucks).
Spin off of this post is to ask, how many books would you say you have for your kiddo? I swear, we have two little bookshelves in his room with board books, a cubby of them in the living room, a stack on the end table in the living room, plus in storage we have an entire bin of paper back books for when he is ready. And yet, I feel like we do not have enough.
OMG YES. I feel like we have about 50 or so board books (which is what we predominately read to S because he is still too rough with paper pages) and yet...how do I read through them all so many times in a week???
Right now S is obsessed with babies so he will ask for his "baby books" (anything at all to do with a baby--"good night new baby," "10 little fingers and 10 little toes..." etc) "quack quack books" (anything to do with farm animals) and "truck books" (any books that have trucks).
Spin off of this post is to ask, how many books would you say you have for your kiddo? I swear, we have two little bookshelves in his room with board books, a cubby of them in the living room, a stack on the end table in the living room, plus in storage we have an entire bin of paper back books for when he is ready. And yet, I feel like we do not have enough.
Go to the library! We have a ton of books, but we also supplement with the library. We go once a week and bring a big bag full home.
DD is almost 3. Her favorite right now is The Monster at the End of this Book. She playacts how scared she is. It’s adorabe. She would have me read nothing but that book if she could. Everything else is randomly picked from her giant pile of books. Lots of old school Little Golden Books.
Post by fancynewbeesly on Feb 15, 2019 5:36:36 GMT -5
She is 7. Fiction books are: American Girl and Rainbow Magic Series.
We have a monthly subscription to Epic Books and she is LOVING the weird animals. This past week she has read about: Electric Eels, Anglerfish, Starnosed Moles, Moray Eels and axolotle.
OMG YES. I feel like we have about 50 or so board books (which is what we predominately read to S because he is still too rough with paper pages) and yet...how do I read through them all so many times in a week???
Right now S is obsessed with babies so he will ask for his "baby books" (anything at all to do with a baby--"good night new baby," "10 little fingers and 10 little toes..." etc) "quack quack books" (anything to do with farm animals) and "truck books" (any books that have trucks).
Spin off of this post is to ask, how many books would you say you have for your kiddo? I swear, we have two little bookshelves in his room with board books, a cubby of them in the living room, a stack on the end table in the living room, plus in storage we have an entire bin of paper back books for when he is ready. And yet, I feel like we do not have enough.
Go to the library! We have a ton of books, but we also supplement with the library. We go once a week and bring a big bag full home.
Ditto this. We probably have 100-ish board books accumulated through 2 kids, plus a couple hundred picture books, but we are supplementing every week with library books, plus the big one brings home a couple from the school library each week. We usually have around 40-50 library books out at any given time. Often when I see a book I think the kids might like, now instead of buying it, I’ll put it on hold at the library. If it’s one they love, I might buy it, but not always since we can always check it again.
I REALLY need to get to the library. I am the worst.
We rarely check out books now that 1) he pulls alllll the books off the shelves and 2) he's not compatible with paper books. The board book section is pretty weak.
I'd say we have in the three dozen range, and read about a third. He goes through phases so it's not always the same dozen we are reading. Plus at his age a lot still arent reading books, but touch and feel stuff.
DS is almost 2. He loves: - diggers by Margaret Wise Brown - just go to bed by Mercer Mayor - the little blue truck books - a wide range of board books (hungry caterpillar, big red barn, the wonderful sounds me brown can do)
DD is 5.5. She is interested in early reader books like Henry and Mudge, likes the magic treehouse books and loves elephant and piggie. She still also very much enjoys picture books, including her favorites Ada Twist, Rosie Revere and Iggy Peck.
ETA: We have 100+ board books and probably 100-200 picture books. We are starting on early readers but I don't think we will buy as many of those, since DD seems to be ok reading a story multiple times and then returning it for new stories.
This is all very timely, as I just started reading Matilda to my DD (5.5). It is...different than I remember. We haven't encountered anything too problematic yet, but I'll plan to discuss it with her when we do. It might be slightly over her head, but I'm so tired of the same old books all of the time. She's beginning to read on her own, but is definitely not ready for chapter books on her own yet. I want to read her all of the books that I remember from my childhood (hence, Matilda), but I'm not sure which ones are best. I'm also open to newer books. If anyone has any suggestions for good read aloud chapter books for a kindergartner who scares easily, I'm all ears. I'm am dying to read Harry Potter to her, but afraid that if I start too early, she'll get scared and never want to read them again.
DS (almost 2) loves an Usborne Lift the Flap Farm book, Little Blue Truck Leads the Way, and all of the "How Do Dinosaurs" books.
DD1 (5) likes Owl Diaries and Boris books, which have short chapters and lots of pictures. Also Judy Moody and Friends, which has more pictures than the classic Judy Moody. And Isadora Moon.
Post by ellipses84 on Feb 17, 2019 12:03:59 GMT -5
My 7yr/2nd grader likes the Magic Treehouse series. We’ve been going to the library a lot lately and getting some of the series that were around when I was a kid, like Encyclopedia Brown and Choose Your Own Adventure (but CYOA was a little too advanced and he didn’t really like it). He’s also really into biographies (and baseball) so I got him one about Jackie Robinson for Valentine’s Day. He’s obsessed with Pokémon and they have some chapter books and he reads some of his huge Pokémon encyclopedias every day. Some shorter ones he likes are the Piggie and Elephant books, Pigeon books and the Narwhal series books. He’s not as fluent in Spanish and likes picture story books for his Spanish reading.
My 2.5 year old still likes board books and his attention span does ok with early readers (like Thomas the Train), but anything longer he seems to lose interest in and wants to turn the pages. He loves the “that’s not my” books.