Adding more books to our reading list!
One of my New Years resolutions was to make sure that I was reading to my children EVERY night for a minimum of 30 minutes. Let me just add that our time stretches much closer to 45 minutes these days which I LOVE! I’m not sure who looks forward to the reading of the books now - me or the children! We have rapidly been expanding the books we like to read. Every night, I get a stack of books, throw them on the bed and the kids get all excited and climb into the bed for reading. They each get to take turns picking books from the pile on the bed! It’s ever so sweet. So, here are some of their favorites:
Hop-on-Pop - Dr. Seuss
Anything with the character Arthur and his sister DW
The Napping House - if you’ve never read this, it’s AWESOME!
Level 1 readers for children - my 4 year old son has taken to memorizing books like CRAZY. He loves ANY of the Level 1 reader books because I can read them to him twice and then voila! He has them MEMORIZED!
Anything with Winnie the Pooh
Anything with silly fun rhymes
Are you My Mother - P. D. Eastman
Anything with Scooby-Doo
Goodnight My Duckling - by Nancy Tafuri - the kids love this because at the end, the Mama duck and her ducklings all cuddle up at the end of the book to go “night night”. My son loves that part because he always says, “Mommy! The Mommy duck is laying down to go to sleep with HER babies - just like we do!” AHHHH! What a sweet little boy.
These are just a few of our/their favorites. The children keeep venturing to the bookshelf every few days to grab more books to read - I expect that our list of books will change and grow over the next few months.
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