Books for Babies and Young Children
Wednesday, August 6, 2003
Choosing the best book for your baby or toddler can feel a bit overwhelming when you first begin. You may find yourself wondering, where is the best place to buy books for my child? How many books should my child have? Should I let my baby or toddler play with books? Here are the tips you need to launch your baby or toddler on a life long love of reading.
Finding Books for Babies and Toddlers
Finding affordable books for your baby or toddler is as easy as your local library. Many libraries offer board books that are wonderful for babies and toddlers. You can also watch for used book sales at your local library or check out garage sales in your area.
A quick internet search for child book of the month club will yield over 200 thousand results relating to book clubs for children. With a children’s book of the month club you will be able to select books from a catalog to have delivered directly to your home. The books are affordable and fun for kids. Your children will get excited each month when they are able to select which books to buy and then they will look forward to their monthly book delivery.
Storing Books for Children
Young children should be encouraged to open books and pretend to read on their own. Babies as young as 9 months to a year will open colorful board books and flip through the pages.
Keeping books accessible to babies and toddlers is as easy as setting up a low book shelf in your home to store all children’s books. You can also have your toddler decorate a cardboard box that is stored on the floor and filled with books. Even the car is a great place for books. Try keeping one or two favorite books in the car for your child to read while you are driving.
Selecting the Best Book for Babies and Toddlers
Babies up to about one year of age enjoy board books. This type of book has thick cardboard pages that turn easily. Soft cover and vinyl books are also available and allow babies to chew on the book with out harming themselves or the book.
Babies also like brightly colored books and books with pictures they can recognize. Animals, people, and everyday objects are a great place to start.
Toddlers like easy to turn pages and simple to follow story lines. Simple rhyming books that present a flowing rhythm engage toddlers and offer a soothing sound. Also look for books that tell a story without words. This gives toddlers the opportunity to read the pictures and make up a story.
When to Read to Young Children
When babies and young children are read to they are more likely to be successful in school and to develop a love for reading. Any time of day is a great time to read to children. Many experts agree that reading at bedtime offers a wonderful routine for children and parents. Each night before bed allow your child to select a book to read.
Be sure to remember that if your child wants to read, now is as good a time as any. When toddlers and young children ask you to read it is important to take the time and fill this need.
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August 6th, 2003 at 11:25 am
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August 6th, 2003 at 12:06 pm
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August 6th, 2003 at 1:00 pm
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August 6th, 2003 at 11:41 am
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August 6th, 2003 at 11:58 am
"The Baby Unicorn" by Jean Marzollo?
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Unicorn-Jean-Marzollo/dp/0590401955/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219415672&sr=1-1
" 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A Good Book for young readers, August 31, 2002
By Jayme (California United States) – See all my reviews
I first read this book when i was about seven and in the "fantasy" stage of life. LOL. it struck me as cute when i first read it.
Star the baby unicorn presents the perfect character for a child to focus on.
on the first page it tell about Star's birth, and then goes on to tell about why the unicorns and the dragons are enimies. after, star is requiered to learn about courage so she can be the final unicorn in a spell to make the dragons friendly(it requires eight unicorns but there are only seven)."
August 6th, 2003 at 6:31 pm
Yes you can request car seats for kids for the rental cars, I have traveled all over europe with my young ones, and the best thing for you to do is reserve a room on each of the trains that you travel on (this only applies to the Inter City Express trains and the Inter City trains) the regular regional trains does not have this option but you do have the option to reserve your seats, typically it runs about an extra 2 euro but it is well worth it. I would recommend starting in Germany first, but only because that is what I did. If you catch the ICE train in Germany you can reserve a cabin and the ride on the train is nice, some of the ICE trains even have play area's for kids and you can catch the ICE to Zurich, Paris, Vienna and into Luxembourg and the Netherlands. When my kids got restless we would go to the restaurant and sit down for a meal or we would simply walk the cabins. At the time I had a 2 year old, 5 year old and a 8 year old and we had no issue's. Also the bathrooms were clean on the ICE and IC train so my wife was quite happy about that.
August 7th, 2003 at 12:20 am
Mostly, I believe it is fear. Fear that their child will not be at a competitive level with peers when they start Kindergarten.
To those parents:
Parents obviously don't get a baby manual, nor do they get a step by step guide on how to teach their children properly. Most of us just wing it and pray they turn out fine. Others that have had some training in the field of child development have a general idea. Nothing is absolute. Google theories on learning, and you get an array of answers on both ends of the spectrum. I say, give your child as many opportunities for safely exploring the world they live in. Schooled or stay at home, The most important thing…Be There, participating, and answering their Q's. You can fit most of the material, that schools require prior knowledge of, into daily games and activities. Look for those "teachable moments". Don't assume someone else will instruct them. Get to know your own child's capabilities as well as weaknesses. Try out the theories that interest you and judge for yourself if it's working and tweak where needed.
I have over 11years in a preschool environment both administrating, and teaching the youngest of minds in a group setting and my conclusion that I have come to is that now, I stay at home with my 21/2, & 4yr old. I research and gather materials from stores or online, talk to other parents for advice and ideas. I teach them my values.
This is not to say, there isn't a need for quality programs, I just wish pre-parent couples would at least consider what they have to offer their own children and adjust lifestyle choices accordingly. Good Luck!
August 7th, 2003 at 8:41 am
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August 7th, 2003 at 12:56 pm
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August 7th, 2003 at 6:45 pm
I believe it would help them learn higher vocabulary, but that they would still need to read books for their age range.
August 7th, 2003 at 8:11 pm
I like reading rhythmic rhyming books. Chicka chicka boom boom is very cool. Something where I can add a beat, tempo, some spice. It keeps my 19 month old interested in the story, or at least mommy's song. Also, we prefer real animals over cartoon animals. It helps to correctly identify animals. Otherwise sometimes a dog or owl is declared a bear and vice-versa.
August 9th, 2003 at 9:54 am
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August 9th, 2003 at 4:28 pm
Awesome work Williamsshamir
Great video.
Much love Kat
August 9th, 2003 at 3:06 pm
There's not just one specific degree for that. You'll need to do some combination of child development and English (with a focus on writing, not lit) or journalism. Double-major if you can. If you can't, I'd go for the major in child dev and minor in English/journalism with as many writing classes as possible.
You actually need to know a lot about how to teach children if you are developing educational programs for them, so that's good that that major includes it. Also, when you are looking for a job, they might want to see that you've had some teaching experience with young children, so you either might want to try to get a part-time job doing that while in college or be open to it for a little while after you graduate.
August 9th, 2003 at 3:29 pm
We just expanded our library so I have lots of opinions.
The Sandra Boynton books are pretty awesome. They are genuinely funny and fun to read. Any of them are great but I am especially fond of "The Belly Button Book" " But not the Hippopotamus" and "Pajama Time."
The "Nutshell Library" is a set of four tiny books by Maurice Sendak that are *awesome.*
"Hush Little Baby" by Sylvia Long is a rewrite of the song, with less emphasis on material wealth, lol, but I really like it.
"Olivia" is awesome.
I am also a big fan of "The Runaway Bunny" another book by Margaret Wise Brown, who wrote Goodnight Moon (in fact, one of the paintings on the wall in the room in "Moon" is from that book.)
August 9th, 2003 at 7:23 pm
Read whatever you have around you! I enjoyed reading silly rhyming stories to my son, and now at 2.5 he loves them and can tell me all the stories from his memory, too cute to hear him recite nursery rhymes.
While they are small it's harder to keep their attention on anything you read, but it's important to do it anyway..no matter how frustrating it is. I kept a lot of hard board books around and short books. Not a lot of words on each page, but just discussed the pictures, etc.
I read the same ones over and over.