Books

Kids Books 101: Longer Stories & Novels to Read Aloud to Preschoolers

April 17, 2012
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In response to my recent post, Living with an Imaginative Child, one reader asked at what stage I introduced Enid Blyton to Immy.The short answer is when she was three years old. The long answer includes a little more detail about how reading longer stories and novels together came to happen in our home, hopefully [...]

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Starting School: Books to Help Ease the Transition

January 24, 2012
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The thought of starting school is very exciting for both child and family but for many children there is a fine line between excited and over-excited or anxious. I find using stories can be a positive, low stress way of introducing information about school to children. Some of the books we are reading in preparation [...]

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Library Picks 2011: Top Picture Book Picks

January 13, 2012
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Last year I published our “Please read it for the 7432th time” list of Immy’s favourite library books. Towards the end of 2011, Immy started to enjoy us reading a lot more novels and chapter books with her (which I will share in a later post) but we all still love a good picture book.  [...]

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Kids Books 101: Parrot Carrot

December 10, 2011
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I have written before about the value of rhyme and the fun that playing around with rhyming words can add to early literacy development ( you’ll find references in these posts – here, here and here). We recently received a copy of the newly released Parrot Carrot by Jol and Kate Temple (Allen & Unwin, [...]

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Our Christmas Reading Pile: Picture Books

December 3, 2011
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Here are some of the Christmas themed picture books Immy is enjoying right now… Christmas Wombat, Jackie French & Bruce Whatley, 2011 Immy is already a big fan of the quirky Diary of a Wombat and Diary of a Baby Wombat and was excited to receive Christmas Wombat this week.  It offers a very funny [...]

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Literacy Spot #40:Growing Kids who Read

October 3, 2011

Reading in bed with Dad, on holidays: 10 months old I am unwell and stuck in bed so for today’s Literacy Spot I am sharing a post that was first published in August of 2009, back when only a few of you were on this blogging journey with me I started reading early with Immy. [...]

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How to Make Book Cover Bunting

August 28, 2011

A few months ago when I published pictures of our book corner I had a number of readers ask how I made the book cover bunting hanging in the space. So here it is… I scanned the covers of our favourite picture books and used an iron on t-shirt transfer paper compatible with my printer. [...]

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We Play: Playing All Over the World

May 17, 2011
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We read often in our house. At any time of the day, in any room of our house (though one of our favourite places to read is our book space which I featured on Friday).  Most days we read at breakfast time, a ritual which began as an attempt to keep a busy toddler at [...]

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