Curious George - The Complete Adventures

We love this book!

This Christmas my friend and her hubby gave this book to Annabelle as a gift. Each morning we read to Annabelle (a bible story first) from this book. It has TONS of stories about Curious George but it almost has the feel of a chapter book for little ones. Annabelle is not able to sit through a whole story, but we just read to her until she gets distracted and then we mark our place. The next day we pick back up in the story at the point in the story where we left off.
She seems to love the colors and the pages are so big that they capture her attention for awhile.

I am certain that we will begin reading this book again when she is a little older. I think children of all ages would enjoy this book. It seems like it could be pretty easy for children who are learning to read too.

If you have a baby girl...

My mom found this book at Wal-Mart and it was in Lydda Grace's stocking. It's called I'd Be Your Princess by Kathryn O'Brien and is all about a little girl talking with her daddy about all the things she and he would do if he were a king and she were his princess. That's sweet, but the best part is that each page includes a Bible verse that focuses on what makes "princess-like" character.

For example, "That night at the royal ball, I would ask you to dance with me," said the girl. "And I would let you stay up way past your bedtime," said her father, "because you are such good company." Your love has given me great joy and encouragement. Philemon 1:7

So that doesn't really do it justice... but anyway.

This book was apparently published in 2003 in paper pages, but we have the board book variety. The text is a little long but Lydda Grace does well listening through the whole thing... I don't know that it would be the best for anyone much younger.

I seriously can't get through this one without crying.

Colors and Animals and Faces

Abbie has recently really started to like this book. She will lean down and kiss some of her favorite pages, and she loves the pictures of the teacher and children's faces at the end. It's a great way to learn colors and animals and is repetitive but not too much...

favorite author

So I noticed recently that several of my favorite books for LG are by the same author, Mem Fox. I am going to start looking for more by her. These are the ones we have enjoyed so far:

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes- precious book about babies from all over the world (thanks Janae and Abbie we enjoy this one regularly!)

Where is the Green Sheep?- the illustrations in this book make me laugh, very cute

Time for Bed- I am always looking for "bedtime" books as I like to read those... before bedtime! This is a super sweet one

Usbourne books are favorites of Abbie's. She got one called "Curly's Friends" as a gift when she was born, and it was - and still is among - her absolute favorite books.

These books have patches of different textures, some have flaps as well. Abbie recently was given a farmyard book with feely patches and flaps - and I like that the animals all keep the same names in this series...Curly is always the pig, Daisy is always the cow, etc. These books are geared to help kids learn, and they grow with them. They all have a duck - some have a mouse - that you can search for on every page, and Abbie is just getting the hang of that, so the book is good for infants through a year or two. There is also a series of these I have seen at our library called, "That's not my ..." (fill in the blank ith doll, train, cat, etc.)

Doggies!

Our daughter loves when we read this book to her. She is nearly 4 weeks old and loves to listen to the many different dog barks and woofs! It is short and entertaining!

first 100 words- bright baby

first 100 words by bright baby is an awesome book! It is a large board book with pictures and words on every page of basic things in a baby's life. LG loves looking at all the pictures and will point along as we read out what they are.

This is one of those books that can keep her occupied for a loooong time! (Like 5 mintues! amazing!!)

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