Joined: 17 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 5013 Gender: Female
Posted: 15 May 2008 at 3:11pm | IP Logged
Both of mine have always loved books. We have enough to fill a small libary. But why is it that no matter how many books they have they always want the same one read.
Louis' favourite books are Who is It? By Rosalind Beardshaw and Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough.
I have spent most of the day today sorting out their books and have a box filled with baby books, that are no longer suitable for them. So i'm taking them to school to sell at the summer fete.
What books does your lo like? I want to get some new ones because if i have to read "someone's eating Mr Bears porridge" for much longer I'll fall asleep before Louis.
Joined: 11 September 2007 United Kingdom Posts: 3057 Gender: Female
Posted: 15 May 2008 at 4:55pm | IP Logged
Lol
My youngest who's 2 loves any form of book.... loves the colours but isn't that particular on the story inside it yet.
My eldesdt lad is 6 and loves Horrid Henry, Roald Dahl books.... he's borrowed the twits from the library and made me laugh as we cooked for his gran and grandad the other day and he said can we cook them worms! urm nope! lol
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Posted: 15 May 2008 at 5:18pm | IP Logged
Joshua loves any kind of book. I still have all his baby books, and now we use them for him to learn how to read. We cover the pictures and he spells out the letters. He likes to flick through character books familiar to him from CBeebies and such shows, and he'll usually make up stories to them. He has quite a lot of touchy feely books too. We also just bought the Usbourne Phonics collection and we're reading those together, although they make me a bit mad because they use words like they're, which I dont think are appropriate when the book is aimed at the mearning child to read themselves.
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Posted: 15 May 2008 at 5:36pm | IP Logged
Ive got a bookcase and a half full of books for the girls...isla is into the Jam pandas at the moment...and Natasja is like me...any with words in it, so shes working her way through them all. All the baby baby books are now gone, gave them to a mate. I love books, my house used to resemble a small library pit it that way!
I feel books are important, and like to come home from work and find the pair of them curled up on the sofa with their noses in books, no ds, no telly, just curled up and reading away. Fair one, isla just makes her stories up, but shes got the general idea of whats what, she makes up her stories from looking at the pictures and when shes telling her stories shes running her finger under the words on the page.
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Posted: 15 May 2008 at 7:09pm | IP Logged
Mine are all just the same as me too, anything with words in them will get read. They dont have any favourites, just books in general pretty much. Sophie is the biggest book worm in our family... her head is constantly stuck in a book. She loves the Harry Potter books (hmm wonder where she get's that from lol) I think its great lots of kids would rather sit and read than be glued to the t.v! x-x-x
Joined: 12 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 8789 Gender: Not Specified
Posted: 15 May 2008 at 7:10pm | IP Logged
Children like repetition at their age, Rin. Mine are the same with having favourites.
I tend to read two stories twice to them at night, stories which they choose. It usually takes a good half an hour before bedtime. We snuggle up together on my bed.
I like to substitute the character's names in the books for their names too. They seem to like this. Another tip is to ask them questions during the story - it keeps them focussed, besides it saves Max asking me loads! Max likes quizzes and I've found it's helped with Tom's speech.
As for books they like all sorts. At the moment we're reading pre-school books mainly for Max's benefit. Tom's favourite is David Melling's Two by Two and a Half starring little Bat Jack and Miss Moo Hoo. There's a little song in it which he knows off by heart now.
I'm in the process of decorating and furnishing the lads' playroom. My folks, bless 'em are well aware of our expanding library and have ordered us the Billy Bookcase from Ikea. If you get a chance, check it out it's huge! We love books here.
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Posted: 15 May 2008 at 11:00pm | IP Logged
My DD loves books too. She was given La La's Ball from the tellytubbies and at one point I could receit the book off by heart and she could too pretty much!
She is now 3 1/2 and enjoys a very wide variety of books, yet if she just cannot sleep I nearly always read "Goodnight Harry" by Kim Lewis. Its a lovely walker book with gorgeous pictures too.
Also got a new book recent via bookstart "Some Dogs Do".
DD also likes "Each Peach, Pear, Plum" by Allan Ahlberg and also Monkey Do by the same author. And another book she's enjoyed but not read lately though "The Ravenous Beast" by Niamh Sharkey.
Finally another book DD loves DP to read to her is Silly Suzy Goose by Petr Horacek.
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Posted: 16 May 2008 at 12:30am | IP Logged
Cerys love books as well and I think Seren is going to be the same by the way she is at the moment. We always read a book, then recite a poem and sing a song for our bedtime routine. The song is always the same one called here is a box. The girls get to choose whatever animal they want to put into the box (I choose Seren's for her) and at the end of the short song you open the box and make the noise of the animal that was in there. It's always my box last and mine always has magic dreams in them which I sprinkle over them before I give them each a kiss and leave them to sleep.
Cerys choice of book at the moment is one of 5 sorry can't remember the authors and the books are upstairs. 'Pants' is one of them, 'Giraffes can't dance' is another, 'Smiley shark' and 'Fidgety Fish' and 'Tiddler' the last one is by Julia Donaldson. She also likes one called 'shhh dont' wake the baby'. Seren is quite happy to listen to any story at the moment and look at the pictures.
We have 3 poems that we tend to stick to and Cerys normally chooses a different one each night. We normally have to say the poem twice as she likes to recite it with me the second time. Seren loves the poems as well, she always stands up in her cot for the poem. We either do 'Ning Nang Nong', 'The owl and the Pussycat' or 'When Daddy fell into the pond'
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Topic: What books do you children like to read?
