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Fave Children's Books
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items I have been teaching for 27 years and 18 of those years I spent teaching Reading. I absolutely love to read. I loved to read to my boys when they were young and I love to read to my grands now. Reading is one of the most important skills a parent can...
My oldest son's favorite book. We read this book so many times, he memorized it. I had to buy 4 copies of the book because the first three fell apart, we read them so much. Now you can purchase the book in board book form. That would have been a luxu...
No, David!
Great teaching tool!!!! I used this book reinforce the alphabet for my kids and they loved the rhythm and rhyming in the book. My kids loved for me to give voices to the coconuts as they raced up the tree. I do the same thing for my grandchildren and...
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom - (Chicka Chicka Book) by Bill Martin & John Archambault (Spiral Bound)
Another one of my favorite classics! This book by Eric Carle is easy to read and can be interactive. My sons always enjoyed when we read the book together and they got to participate in feeding the caterpillar and then magically making the caterpilla...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Giant Board Book and Plush Package [With Plush] (Giant Board Book ed.)(Hardcover)
Hungry Caterpillar Part 2: Another one of my favorite classics! This book by Eric Carle is easy to read and can be interactive. My sons always enjoyed when we read the book together and they got to participate in feeding the caterpillar and then magi...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book and Plush (Hardcover)
The Napping House is another of both my children and grandchildren's favorites. The illustrations are top notch and easily incorporated into the reading of the book. My kids loved to “read” the book back to me long before they could read just byusing...
The Napping House by Audrey Wood, Don Wood, Board Book
This book was very popular at bedtime, of course! I tried to downplay telling everything goodnight because my boys used it as an excuse to actually tell everything in the room, the house, the yard, the neighborhood, and by the time they were done the...
Goodnight Moon, (Hardcover)
Such a sweet story of a mother's love for her son. I read this to my sons so many times I wore the paperback out and had to buy a hardback. Everytime we read the book when we got to the end, they would swear they were going to take care of me forever...
Love You Forever|Hardcover
“Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak was one of my boys favorite books. They seemed to identify with the wild things. I am not sure if it was because my boys were a little wild themselves or whether they wanted to go on the adventure. I even...
Where the Wild Things Are (Paperback) by Maurice Sendak
Another favorite book! The boys used to love to make the sounds like they were actually typing. My grands have discovered doing the same thing!
A Click Clack Book: Click, Clack, Moo 20th Anniversary Edition : Cows That Type (Hardcover)
“Corduroy” was my youngest sons favorite for a long time. He even had a Corduroy bear he carried around so long the bear fell apart.
Corduroy - by Don Freeman (Hardcover)
My oldest son loved this book. When he was in pre-k, our governor's wife came to visit his school and she gifted every child with a copy of the book. When he brought the book home that day, we immediately had to read the book over and over until he f...
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? - (Brown Bear and Friends) 2nd Edition by Bill Martin (Hardcover)
My boys and I enjoyed reading this book together after going to pick our own blueberries in the fields outside of Odum. Even though Sal, the main character, did not pick blueberries in a field. Sal and his mom did go out to pick blueberries. My boys always loved the way they could talk about picking blueberries like Sal. We also talked abaout not straying away from momma when we went out and how they did not want to be like Sal and almost e...
Blueberries for Sal
“When Sophie gets angry--really, really angry ...” is one in a series of books featuring a little girl names Sophia who learns how to handle big feelings. I read these books with my boys and now with my grands and talk about handling feelings and how...
When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry... (Caldecott Honor Book)|Hardcover