Off the Shelf: 2/17/14
My son loves books. Now, at almost 18 months, he will sit on the floor for 15 minutes or so reading to himself (and longer if someone reads to him!), flipping through page after page and reciting words and lines he knows. It can be a challenge sometimes to get a new book through the pile of tried and true. However, when a book is in, it’s in.
Over the past few months, I have been thinking about starting a feature of what the boy’s favorite books are each week or two weeks, however time allows, since they do change. These are the books that I can hardly get put away during the week, let alone during the day because he wants to read them over and over and over, often three times per sitting, and usually two to three sittings a day. And so they stay off the shelf until he has quenched his thirst and is ready to move on to the next love, visiting these established loves between times.
Without further ado, here is the first installment of Off the Shelf.
Over the last two weeks my son’s favorite books have been:
- Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler and R. Gregory Christie
- Goodnight Wisconsin by Adam Gamble and Mark Jasper
- Hello Baby by Mem Fox and Steve Jenkins
- Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry
- Lulu’s Busy Day by Caroline Uff
- Oscar Otter and the Goldfish by Maurice Pledger
- Balancing Act by Ellen Stoll Walsh
- Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman
- Goodnight Kisses by Barney Saltzberg
- My First ABC Book Board Book by DK Publishing, Inc.
Jazz Baby is still at the top of his list, and I will write a review later this week.