For the past few months we read to my son every night. He received many new books for Christmas, but we have already read them to death. I am looking for some new book ideas, not just board books, but books with actual stories. We have many Dr. Sues books, The Little Critters, The Dinosaurs (how does a dinosaur....My truck is stuck, The Boynton books, etc..but I am looking for some new titles to add to our collection.
Thanks in advance~
Have you read "5minute Good Night Stories?" It's a rather large book with probably at least 25 stories in it, including "The Velveteen Rabbit", "Little Red Riding Hood" to name a few of the famous ones, but also some cutesy ones that you likely don't own already, "Paper Route Puppy," "Cedar's New Tooth." It's a very cute book and will keep your little one entertained for awhile.
Other than that, I like Golden Books...the classic ones though like The Pokie Little Puppy, The Puppy who wanted a Boy, etc. Good luck.
I would strongly suggest to go to your local library. We read to our kids every night too, and seriously check out about 30 books every three weeks or so. My kids have been exposed to a wide range of books and rarely have we checked out the same book twice. Plus, they have seasonal books and topical books, that match their current interests. Lately we have been reading a lot of Valentine books and books about the tooth fairy. In fact, we have read so many books, I can't remember all the good ones :). Then what I do, if it's a really loved book, we buy it. My son is really into Diego, and my daughter, princesses, so we have bought quite a few of those!
Good luck!
Mine love anything by Eric Carle! The Hungry Caterpiller and many more! Barnes and Noble has an awesome childrens section where you could see what he migrates to!
Another vote for Eric Carlye. We also love The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord. There are also the Tales of Virtue- there's I think 10 books in the series like Stone Soup, The Tortoise and The Hare, etc. Tacky in Trouble by Helen Lester is very cute. Good Night Moon is sweet. And we really like Golden Books at our house. Same with Winnie the Pooh. Good luck!
My daughter is 18 months. Her current favorites are the 5 little monkey books and A Frog in the Bog. We also like Franklin and Arthur books.
I got my son a set of Tonka books and he LOVES them! Also, I really like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Chicka Chicka 123. And we read a lot of poems for little ones, ie: Shel Silverstein, etc. The Bear Snores On...
You should check out Barefoot Books...It is a small independent children's publisher. They have great books!
readingbarefootbooks.com
Nick Bruel is a really good author as well. Also, a book of my daughter's favorates is The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Stawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear.
Another good idea, which I did with my daughter, is to join a scholastic book club or some other book club. She loves getting new books in the mail every few weeks and they are not that expensive.
Hit your local libary OMG what a great resource the libary is. They usually have story time, plenty of books to borrow.
it would take a life time to get thru all the books.
good luck!
Debbie
I received a great resource book when I had my son. It's called The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. The first section of the book is about the importance of reading and how he did various studies to prove it. The second half of the book is a reference section that lists all kinds of books that are great to read aloud because not all books are good to read aloud. It also shows an age next to the book.
Also, if you go to the American Library Association website they usually have a children's section and they show what the new books are that have received awards and are good read aloud books.
Barefoot books has great books and several come with CDs that "sing" the story. You can go to www.barefootbooks.com. Borders and the library sometimes carries the books, too.
eric carle board books are great
look at mashalls tjmax home goods places like that
i also bought a bunch on ebay
My kids both absolutely love poetry, and it's fun to read. I mention it because it came up recently with some friends and I was surprised that other people don't read poetry as much as we do. Two of our favorites are "Polka Bats and Octopus Slacks" by Calef Brown, a collection of his poetry and illustrations, and a traditional illustrated collection of classics, "Eloise Wilkin's Poems to Read to the Very Young."
Stories for that age - the Frog and Toad books sound exactly like what you're looking for. Anything by Jan Brett. You could also try a fairy tale collection - the one we have is from my childhood so probably out of print, but I'm sure there are many to choose from.
we buy all are book for children from GOODWILL- they have always been clean and nice and CHEAP
usborne books are AWESOME. there's probably a WAHM listed somewhere in here that sells them.
oh there are so many- go to the library- theres the hungry caterpillar, goodnight moon, bear snores on, any eric carle books. I also like to get books about valentines day, st patricks day etc..
There are some great books in the dollar section at Target right now. I was at the one in Tinley which I do not typically shop at.
There were mini board books, but what I bought were the paper Sesame Street books with Elmo and Zoe. They looked to be easy to read for my 6 yo and my son would love them also (3yo).
I LOVE buying books, and our paper ones rarely get torn.
Also, keep reading my truck is stuck - my son can now "read" it to us. It is too cute. "Help, Please Help - Does anyone know how to make my stuck truck go." Total tongue twister!
Hope this helps.
Becky :)
My 2 are girls, so we always do Dora books. But a different thing that they've really been getting into lately are the classics. I found these Golden Book Collections where each book has like 6 stories in it and it was maybe a $7 book at Kmart or Target I think.
Then they have the one book that has these 3 minute stories of all the real classics that you remember. The 3 Little Pigs, Goldilocks, The Pied Piper and all those. I would just go to Barnes and Noble and tell them you wanted a book with a bunch of stories in it, I think they'll have a section.
i'd try kids poetry. things like shel silverstien. silly poems and silly pictures and they are still entertaining to read after reading them for the 1000th time.
We started buying the Step Into Reading type of books (level 1) because they have simple stories and aren't too long. My daughter loves them. (she is 3.5, but we've been buying them for a while now)
Other books that are favorites: I Know a Rhino, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, The Monster at the End of this Book, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Maxi the Taxi Dog, and Fancy Nancy (although your son may not be into the last one!)
Happy reading!