I can’t believe it’s been almost a month, and I’ve neglected to show you the book haul Peanut pulled in over her birthday week! I have to say, she did extremely well for herself. In my quest to raise a reader, I’ve showered her with books from day one (I buy her plenty as just-because presents, since I don’t want her to grow up thinking that we only get books to read on birthdays and Christmas), but even I can see that I went a leetle bit overboard this time. And you can add that to the fact that she’s surrounded by family and friends who also love to read and give books, and… well… she’s got enough reading material to last her at least until Christmas. Maybe.
Books from Family and Friends:
Make Way for Ducklings
Madeline at the White House
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type (n.b. This book is AWESOME!)
Curious George Goes to the Library
Is Your Mama a Llama?
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Books from Mommy and Daddy
Tiny Pie
Tea Rex
Olivia
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
Go Dog Go
Indestructibles: Frere Jacques
Indestructibles: Hickory Dickory Dock
Wuthering Heights: A BabyLit Weather Primer
Sense and Sensibility: A BabyLit Opposites Primer
On My Leaf
I’m sort of obsessed with Tea Rex. And Tiny Pie. And the BabyLit books. And…
What is your favorite children’s book?
covered in flour 
So many good classics! And Wuthering Heights/Sense and Sensibility primers??! How neat!
The BabyLit books are so cool! I first heard of them from Jessica of the Quirky Bookworm blog, and I’m so glad – they’re some of my favorite books that Peanut has! (And I had to get her GO DOG GO – that was one of my favorites when I was little.)
Wuthering Heights and Sense & Sensibility BabyLit primers???!!! I’m intrigued.
With all these books, you may need to build Peanut her own library. I can see this kid growing up as a librarian or owning her own bookshop. 😉
I would LOVE it if she wanted to be a librarian or bookseller! (Of course, she can be anything she wants to be… but if her chosen profession involves books, so much the better.) The BabyLit books are fabulous. These are actually the seventh and eighth that Peanut has gotten – she also has the BabyLit versions of JANE EYRE, PRIDE & PREJUDICE, ROMEO & JULIET, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, DRACULA, and A CHRISTMAS CAROL (I’m always forgetting that she has that last one because the Christmas books are all packed away with the decorations). The collection also includes MOBY-DICK and they will soon be releasing ANNA KARENINA, JABBERWOCKY and SHERLOCK HOLMES. I can’t say enough good things about these books! I think they’re so much cuter than the “Cozy Classics” board books, the concept of a counting/colors/opposites/whatever primer is creative and the illustrations are really bold and modern. I think I’ll keep them out even after she’s out of the board book phase, because I am so completely charmed by them I just can’t get enough. We read them every day!
How long did the Indestructibles last?
Amazingly, they’re still hanging in there. Peanut has taken the “Indestructibles” brand name as a personal challenge, but she hasn’t been able to do any lasting damage. The best she can do is crumple them up, but I periodically smooth them out and they’re good as new. They aren’t the cutest-looking books, so I probably won’t buy any more than the two she got for her birthday, but it’s certainly a fun diversion for her to have something it appears she really can’t destroy.
Peanut’s a very lucky girl! As for the Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility Primers, there’s no harm in starting her early on these classics! It’s been a long time since I read Wuthering Heights (I’m planning to read it as part of Maggie’s read-along in January).
I love the BabyLit books – such a great concept. Although… I kind of like the BabyLit version of Wuthering Heights better than the adult version. It’s never been one of my favorite books, although it sure does make an adorable weather primer! Heh.