What is Ezri reading?

The Baby Goes Beep by Rebecca O’Connell with pictures by Ken Wilson-Max.
Onomatopoeia is big right now developmentally speaking. We visited Cosley Zoo. Ezri saw a cow and said, “moo! moo!” When she falls she says “boom.” She likes it when I imitate the sound of the wind chimes – “ting-a-ling.” Ezri likes to hear “bring-bring” for the phone and “hisssssss” for her snake puppet. This love of sounds made the book The Baby Goes Beep perfect for her. It’s text is very simple and rhythmically repetitious. “The baby goes Yum. The baby goes Yum Yum. The baby goes Yum Yum Yum Yum.” The illustrations show scenes taking the reader through baby’s day from riding in the car with “beep” to bedtime with “shh.” The repeated sentences make reading this feel like chanting and it’s hard not to develop a strong cadence. I can tell this book is successful because she will listen repeatedly and I am happy to reread it for her.

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