For those of you with kids, how do you go about choosing books for your littlies?
For me, it's pretty random. I picked up the book and looked through the pictures. If I liked the pictures I would borrow them. I usually try to borrow 2 from the same author. I find that if N likes one of the book, he would like the other one.
I recently discovered Judith Donaldson and Nick Sharratt in their books Toddle Waddle and One Mole Digging a Hole.
Took him a few days of getting used to. Now he would recite some of the contents when he sees the book.
Toddle waddle has minimum words but allow lots of interaction between N and myself. He would even comment that the daschund dog in the book looks like Prada (my brother's dog).
In a page where everyone is busy doing something at the beach, he spotted that an auntie is eating an apple, a boy is drinking orange juice, there's a red crab on the beach etc...
One Mole Digging a Hole is hilarious. I think I liked it more than N.
One page has a number plus the description of the picture next page. Eg
One Mole digging a hole. Two snakes with garden rakes, Three bears picking pears ....and so on..
In between reading the book, he would ask, what colour is that (point to the flower or butterfly)
I also picked up a version that comes with the audio cd. It's pretty fun to hear while we are inside the car.
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