I am a great fan of reading to your child and cannot emphasise enough how important it is. It gives children so many fabulous skills in the area of communication, such as listening, attention, vocabulary, word classes (e.g. animals, food, vehicles) understanding of language, phonetics, rhyme - just to mention a few. So many opportunities for your young child all wrapped up in one book!
I have listed some of my favourite titles below. These are just a selection and it is by no means a complete list. You will have your own favourites. I love the fact that some of these books were around when I was a child and they are still being loved by the next generation.
Are You My Mother? Philip D. Eastman
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat Dr Seuss
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy Lynley Dodd
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
Brown Bear, Brown Bear Bill Martin, Jr
The Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister
Guess How Much I Love You Sam Bratney
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
The King of Quizzical Island Gordon Snell
Crazy Hair Neil Gaiman
One Night in the Zoo Judith Kerr
Timmy the Tug Thames and Hudson
The Chicken Thief Beatrice Rodriguez
The Wonky Donkey Craig Smith
The Word Witch Margaret Mahy
Old Huhu Kyle Mewburn My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes Eve Sutton The Fizzy Orange Soft Drink Janet Slater Bottin Bertie and the Bear Pamela Allen Fancy That! Who Sank the Boat? Pamela Allen The Little Yellow Digger Betty Gilderdale Cars and Trucks and Things That Go Richard Scarry Mr Grumpy’s Motor Car John Burningham Where’s Spot? Eric Hill Dear Zoo Rod Campbell The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson The Gruffalo’s Child Julia Donaldson The Snail and the Whale Julia Donaldson
And do not forget the wonderful DK range of beautiful photographs of objects.
Enjoy reading with your little one. |
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