This would be a beautiful book to share with a your baby, toddler or preschooler. The mother in the story talks about what her life was like before she has a baby and then moves on to talk about how she now shares all of those things with her child and how she used to think she had everything until she had a child. Yep, you might tear up a little…such a sweet and touching book.
This book follows a little boy through his day while he eats, plays dress-up, goes to story time and preschool, has dinner and gets ready for bed. This would make a great cuddle time, nap time, bed time book.
This is a great book about a boy and his grandfather in the garden and a red hen that keeps following them. This story has a lot of repetition which children love and is great for developing beginning reading skills. It also is a rhyming books which is also great for beginning reading skills. Children will like the ending when they finally find out why that hen was following them. She has a surprise for them…
The mama animals have put their babies down to sleep for the night so they decide to have a barn dance while the little ones sleep. Each of the mamas ends up getting tuckered out and crawling into bed with their little ones and once the little ones notice that the mamas are all asleep they get up and have their own dance party. This is a super cute book and it rhymes…I am a sucker for cute books with a good rhyme.
This is a great counting book and it’s also fun because as the hunter (who never seems to be able to see the animals that are hiding from him) is looking for the animals, your little reader will have fun trying to guess which animals are hiding in the background. The best part is the end when the hunter finally sees the animals and they are all following him. Again, great for counting…”1 hunter”, “2 elephants”, “3 giraffes”, etc. but fun and interactive as well.
This books follows in the spirit of The Night Before Christmas, but with a dinosaur twist. It has a little drama…an herbivore eats Santa’s list and then there’s a volcano that Tyrannoclaus and his reindeer dinosaurs have to navigate their way through, but it is also a sweet rhyming story or Tyrannoclaus persevering to get all of the dino kids their presents. If you have a child who loves dinosaurs, then they will love this book.
This would be a great book to share with the toddler, preschooler or kindergartener in your life. The illustrations are wonderful, it rhymes and it shares the story of Hanukkah as well as the traditions that go along with Hanukkah.
This is the perfect book for sharing the Christmas story with small children. The story is simple, yet beautiful and the illustrations are warm and soft. You will get this book out again and again, year after year.
The reindeer are waiting and waiting and Santa is late and they just can’t figure out what could be keeping Santa. They finally go and knock on Santa’s door and it turns out Santa wasn’t late…the reindeer had the wrong day. Cute rhyming story with a line that repeats that will have your little one chiming in to “help” you read the story.
Any author who can bring the magic of a holiday alive in the form of a haiku is going to spark my interest. Not only does this book deliver, but the illustrations are vibrant and beautiful. The haiku format is creative, keeps things simple so that the youngest children will enjoy and understand the basics of Hanukkah and it might even spark the older children into trying to come up with their own Hanukkah haikus.
