Honey for a Child's Heart

Lydda Grace got this book for Christmas, though it's one for me to read and learn from, it truly is for her. Honey for a Child's Heart by Gladys Hunt is AMAZING! It's basically a book about kids books and the philosophy of including reading and especially reading aloud as an integral part of family life.

I have found myself completely agreeing with everything the author says and have been so encouraged to keep reading and to increase in our reading to Lydda Grace.

The BEST part about this book is that it has book lists for different ages!! Hunt admits that this is not a conclusive list, but it is a really great starting point and worked wonderfully to find books the last time we went to the library.

I highly recommend!

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.)

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Blessings,
emily