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What books did you most enjoy reading for your Newborn/Toddler?

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  • #32
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,547 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    My young fella (15 months) loves 'Emergency Rescue' by Jonathen Emmett.
    It's a pop up book, lovely pictures and nice rhymes and he gets to point out the different animals and find the hidden objects
    http://www.scribblestreet.co.uk/pops/emergency/emergency.html
    Need a new one tho as the old one's getting a little battered

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #33
    Johnny_Fontane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭Johnny_Fontane


    1. Elephant Wellyphant
    2. Very Hungry Caterpillar
    3. A Hug for Humphrey

    he's 16 months old and when we tell him to go get elephant wellyphant, he'll find it wherever it is.

    bit weird really


  • #34
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,375 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    ebmma wrote: »
    this is interesting..Robin is 6 months now and can't imagine reading to him just yet. He's just...a very active baby. He's very sociable and just never stops...very tiring. He won't sit still for me to read and will just try to climb me and squeal into my ear! and eat the book..
    when he was a newborn I was in no condition to read so maybe a missed opportunity there.

    maybe in a few months :-) and then it'll be Wheel of time because it's what I'm reading and he's way more interested in tone rather than words so everybody wins :D

    My son was like that too. Law of perpetual motion. I still had books around for him though. Not real ones, but rubber and cloth ones that could take the beating. I did it so he could get used to books, being around books, so that books were there from the start and he would know they would always be there and just be a part of life.

    Then I moved onto the board books. He is three now and loves story time. Seriously he could sit there now and read books with you for hours. And now Im more confident that when he starts school that will be in him now.


  • #35
    Vikki09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Vikki09


    My daughter, who is 3, loves the Thats not my Santa/Snowman/Fairy etc range of books. She has loved them since she was about 18 months & she could feel the various textures in the books!


  • #36
    bubbaloo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭bubbaloo


    Any of the Usborne stories were great. My little boy was completey OBSESSED about them, handing the book to me every haf hour to read a story. They're lovely stories with great pictures too. The link below shows the books on Amazon. Happy reading.

    http://www.scampsandrascals.co.uk/books/farmyardtales/index.html


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  • #37
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    I got James his first leabhar Gaeilge at the weekend.

    1242911941_Codladh%20Samh%20a%20Bhrain_w170_h170.jpg

    :D


  • #38
    Bill2673
    Closed Accounts Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Bill2673


    Just wondering have I got it wrong here:

    We have two kids, a boy, 2 yrs, and a baby girl, 2 months. When I look back on the books I read to my son, nearly all of them are based on male characters, even when the author is female. Its not that we set out to buy books that way, its just the way it was. Anyone else notice that?

    Now that we have a baby girl, who we will start reading books to shortly, I don't want to read her baby books that only or mainly feature baby boys? Should I just not care about that? Does it make a difference?

    (Obviously some books like the Gruffalo are gender neutral also, I'm not).


  • #39
    jimmyendless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭jimmyendless


    Was the Gruffalo a stay at home dad?
    Most of our books are neutral except for Charlie Cook.

    Three books every night before bed and in this order always:

    Tyrannosaurus Drip,
    Tell the time with Winnie the Pooh and
    Charlie Cook's Favourite Book


  • #40
    goosie2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭goosie2005


    Ten in the bed
    Ten out of the bed
    Ten play hide and seek

    ...all by Penny Dale are favourites, lots of hidden details, my 3 all liked these books


  • #41
    Moonbeam
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    I got James his first leabhar Gaeilge at the weekend.

    1242911941_Codladh%20Samh%20a%20Bhrain_w170_h170.jpg

    :D

    Aww:)
    My little girls dog is called Bran in preperation for the books so she is convinced they are all about her Bran:)
    We have a good few lovely irish books for her now.

    She got some Bran books and Bándearg in the library this week.
    (http://www.litriocht.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1568)
    mama quack quack was what the decision was based on:)

    She can't quite say Gruffalo but as soon as bedtime comes mama dada uffalo story:)

    Got her the Gruffalos child last week but it is just not as good:)

    Got her 2 books to prepare her for the impending arrival too -
    Waiting for baby and There's a house inside my mummy.
    She was kissing the mammys bump in waiting for baby:)


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  • #42
    annetted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭annetted


    our little man loves
    little red riding hood
    gossie
    gossie and gertie
    postman pat
    tractor tom

    only thing is you may have to read each one 10 times before he goes to sleep!


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