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Books are great Oh I love my books Is it booktime yet?" I can sit through an entire book, even three! Sometimes i would ran up to Mom or Dad with books in my hand and say "Read book...please!" 
(oh! how can you resist? - from Mom a.k.a editor>But reading is a part of our bedtime ritual for a long, long time now. And you know what? I can take care of my books now, i don't tear them apart anymore :) |
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Millions of Cats What's good about this is the pattern which now Adri know's how to read along "Millions, and Billions and Trillions of cats". Tells where excess vanity leads too! |
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Just Me A boy takes a walk on the farm and asks each different animal if they cold show him how they do things like hopping, walking etc. This is not just a "read-along" but an "act-as-well" book! |
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 Raven: A Trickster tale from Pacific Northwest |
| Goodnight Moon Who doesn't know this classic from Margaret Wise Brown. This book was a significant part in our nighttime ritual...Adri read this about a hundred times already! It's now stacked in the bookshelf with some of the pages torn apart, but it's story will last forever! |
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Courduroy This fuzzy brown bear in green overalls and his adventures in the department store has surely captured Adri's heart. |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar I loved it the first time I heard my daughter said pickle (picol), and cocoon (kuh-koon)...The best part is the page where it became a beautiful butterfly, Adri would open and close the book op top of her head as if it we're really flying. She still loves this up to now. |
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Freight Train Pictures are big, colors are bright, train moves slowly then speeds up to pass a city, a trestle,..."Choo! Choo!. What's more amazing is how it helped Adri know about her 8 basic colors PERFECTLY at an early age. I owe the author, Donald Crews, a big, big Thanks! |
| Ten, Nine, Eight A bedtime counting book. This one is featured in one of Barney's episodes. Get ready to count down to dreamland! |
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Vegetable Soup Again, we cannot find a picture of this book by Tatjiana Krizmanic (nice name!).This is a good book to teach kids about vegetables. Uses rhyming and colorful pictures. "Hhhhmmmm...sip, sip, sip, sip. It's time for sipping Vegetable soup!" |
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I Love You Forever "I'll Love you Forever, I'll Like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be"! I always like to singhis phase to Adri. She loves to hear it too. I shed tears the first time i read this to her. It speaks truthfully of a parents love for her child - forever. This book , by the way, is also very personal to the author, Robert Munsch, who dedicated this book to his two stillborn babies, Sam and Gilly. |
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Each Peach Pear Plum This is really a peekaboo game in a book. Very easy to read and remember, uses rhyme and a lot of familliar characters. Great for reading together. |
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Swimmy One brave black little fish, exemplifies courage by teaching his school of fish on how to swim together and chase the big fish away! This is also a wonderful adventure in the sea with pretty watercolor pictures of sea anemones, eel, lobster, and more. | Whose mouse are you? This resourceful little mouse shows the importance of family and togetherness. |
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The Very Busy Spider But the spider is very busy spinning her...web! Lot's of animal sounds in this book. Another great one from Mr. Eric Carle. |
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Alexander and the wind-up Mouse Excellent story about friendship and loyalty. |
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When this Box is Full Vivid representation of each of the 12 months. There's a red foil heart in February, helicopters from the maple tree in May and alot more. The best part is the ending wherein the boy shares all the things in the box to a friend...that's you! |
| Trivia Time... For most of recorded history, reading aloud has been the norm and reading silently has been regarded as an unusual procedure. The satirist Lucian (second century A.D.) gave this advice to readers: "Look at your books with your eyes wide open…and read them aloud with great fluency, keeping your eyes in advance of your lips." St. Agustine marveled that his colleague St. Ambrose, could read while "his voice and tongue were at rest". Even St. Benedict, setting his rule for monks, did not require silent reading but that each monk should "do so in such a way as not to disturb anyone else." Reading aloud was a source of such entertainment that Pliny the Younger (b. A.D. 62) is said to have read his own works to houseguests for two days straight. Reports do not indicate if the guest returned for another visit. |
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