Sometimes it’s hard to tell which books are my son’s favorites. I know which ones I prefer reading, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he likes the sames ones. This week my husband and I both agreed that repetitive books are annoying to read. Repetitive books go like this, “pg 1 – This is the bed, pg 2 – This is the cat who sat on the bed, pg 3 – This is the tail of the cat who sat on the bed…” You get my point. I usually just shorten the phrases once they get too long and my son doesn’t notice. We got two of those books this week and my son really liked one of them, and seemed so-so with the other one. Here is this week’s list:
Five Little Monkeys sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow – Favorite, my son seems to really like monkeys so this was a good pick
The Chair Where Bear Sits by Lee Wardlaw – Favorite, this book has some neat flaps for the kids to turn, and my son really loved it (I tried to skip it a lot because it’s one of the repetitive ones, but he never let me)
The new Babysitter by Sheryl Berk – Favorite, my son didn’t like this book because of Barney, (he doesn’t know who Barney is) he liked it because of the milk and cookies with the babysitter
What did you Put in Your Pocket? by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers – Favorite, pockets are intriguing to 2 year olds – my son is just learning that he can stick things in his pocket and so in turn liked this book (but I didn’t really like the illustrations)
Where is my Mommy? by Julie Downing – Almost Favorite, my son liked seeing the different animals and their mamas
Gossie by Olivier Dunrea – Almost Favorite, this is a book in a series about goslings and Ollie the Stomper is still our favorite one
Gossie & Gertie by Olivier Dunrea – Almost favorite, same reason as above
Pearl’s new Skates by Holly Keller – OK Favorite, my son sat through it for several reads but never got too excited
Nosy Rosie by Holly Keller – OK Favorite, same reason and author as above
Christmas Morning by Cheryl Ryan – OK Favorite, this was one of those repetitive ones and I think my son only liked it because it’s about Christmas…there are some cute action ideas in the back of the book though, I didn’t try them out
What do you love? by Jonathan London – OK favorite, liked to say the title but wasn’t very excited while reading it
So at least there were no bad ones this week!