Saturday, January 5, 2013

Top 10 picture books/series to read to 3 year old boy

Did I mention I am a reading specialist? So in my professional opinion I can not emphasis enough how important reading EVERY single day to your child. How long? How often? Ideally sometime in morning and again in afternoon/evening. Don't have time? Too bad. This is too important to your child's development to not do this EVERY day. Yes, even on vacation. There are kids who walk into kindergarten not knowing how to hold a book, how to turn pages, or what a book is used for.
Good news- there are some really entertaining books out there for adults to enjoy reading too.

1. Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Williams. These books have good dialog, funny, and after several readings kids jump right in "reading" along too. (This is important developmentally too)
2. Llama Llama mad at mama, Llama Llama misses mama, and LLama red pajama written by Anna Dewdney.
3. The Great Fuzz Frenzy written by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
4. A is for Musk Ox and by Erin Cabatingen and Mastthew Myers Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham. Alphabet books that are interesting and do teach letter sounds. Both are funny.
5. Dooby Dooby Moo by Doreen Cronin. Actually most of her books are a good choice.
6. Duck on Bike by David Shannon.
7. Big Bear Little Bear by David Bedford and Jane Chapman.
8. Take me Out to The Ball game with audio CD by Jack Northworth. The CD makes this good.
9.Good Night, Good Night Construction Site by Sherri Dusky Rinkerand Tom Lichtenheld
10. Disney Bedtime favorites. This is actually a collection and ideal to pack on trips.

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