She found the book her grandpa wrote. Is she going to read it?
No, she’s going to try to chew the corner, but I took it away.
I gave her a chewy teether instead.
I have read aloud to her sections of Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales. She enjoys listening to me read, especially the parts where there are bears or Indians.
Our favorite book lately for me to read aloud to her is
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young selected by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by Marc Brown (of Arthur book fame).
It’s filled with rhymes by the likes of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss, but most of our favorites are by Anonymous (she comes up with the cleverest rhymes). Today we read a page featuring chicken and duck rhymes.
“Quack, quack!
We have two ducks. One blue. One black.
And when our blue duck goes ‘Quack-quack’
our black duck quickly quack-quacks back.
The quacks Blue quacks make her quite a quacker
but Black is a quicker quacker-backer.”
That one is from Dr. Seuss.
I’ve been reading to her from this book for a long time and with 4 -8 rhymes a page and around 100 pages we can keep reading for a long time to come.
We’ve read everything up to page 43 with some rereads on favorite pages like the ones about the weather.
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I worked hard to give Adventures in Yellowstone a number of virtues — but tasty wasn’t one of them. Excitement was one and I’m glad Ezri likes stories about Indians and bears, which have dramatic rhythm and pace. She sure is discerning!
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