What books to read to my daughter?

Quiet_Life

My kids loved
One bear at bedtime and
The very hungary caterpillar
these maybe out of fashion now but good stories usually endure

patchwork_cat

Hi
Where to start. We're all going on a bear hunt, Mick Inkpen, Debi Gliori, Most walker books are great. Keep your eyes open on ebay as there will be a lot on soon - The Book People are doing a set of free childrens books when you spend 30 - you'll probably be able to do a deal on postage if you buy at the same time.I'd like to say I'll do you a deal - but against the rules!!
Books with a nice simple rhyming text and move your finger along under the word as you say it. Usborne Farmyard tales are good as they have simple text at the top and then something else for Mum to read underneath.
She probably won't pick up more than a few letters at 21 months , but it is never too young to instil a love of literature! - my son learn't the Halifax from the X and everytime he saw an X would say Halifax!

steve_cov

Ottakar's have a "Buy three children's books and get a fourth free", although you can buy these over a longer period, not all at once. You get a red sticker in a collector's card, if I remember correctly.

My godsons enjoyed - and still enjoy - making up their own story based on the pictures. Sometimes it's just as much fun to ask them what they think is happening in the pictures. You tend to need the better illustrated books for that, though.

andycarmi

searcher30 wrote:

i would like to teach her the alphabet and how to count too that is a bit of fun. any suggestions on this front too would be great.
thanks in advance.

If you are going to teach her the alphabet, teach the letter sounds NOT the letter names as this will confuse her when she gets to school!!!

hardpressed

A fun way to teach children to count is to do it all the time, when you're going up and down the stairs, doing up buttons, putting on shoes etc. Look out for letters, point out car numbers or adverts that have the initial of their name or have D for daddy, M for mummy, using the sound of the letter rather than it's name. Children love rhymes, there used to be Ladybird book that had rhyming stories which are good. Have fun.

searcher30

i really appreciate the time everyone has taken to write a few
notes. thank you very much . will look at all options. if see any worthwhile
will post back in this thread in case can help anyone else. thanks again!

jellyhead

the hungry caterpillar rocks

'one duck stuck' helps with learning to count to ten http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0744563445/qid=1145532860/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-7760197-4483040
it was spud's favourite.

Lorian

I guess the other ones to look at if you want a head start on phonics is letterland - often many for sale on Ebay.

Rachie_B

ive just bought some "Garden gang" books from ebay for my youngest son http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/7-LADYBIRD-CHILDRENS-BOOKS-GARDEN-GANG-SERIES-413_W0QQitemZ7024280488QQcategoryZ64188QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

anyone remember them? we are having great fun reading them before bedtime

and he seems to love them as much as i did when i was his age

he also likes : kipper books,percy the park keeper and anything about animals currently lol

when he was younger he loved anything with winnie the pooh in and also lift the flap books

bylromarha

Lorian wrote:

I guess the other ones to look at if you want a head start on phonics is letterland - often many for sale on Ebay.

Letterland can be quite confusing for children. I had kids in my class that saw an a and said annie apple rather than "a". It was quite hard to untrain them once it was stuck in there.

Best to keep away from any published schemes until they start school IMO.

BTW, I used to love Garden Gang books...my mum still has mine somewhere I think...I remember being in awe at the time, because aren't they written by a ten year old or something?