[Calidris]

Well 2.5 to be exact. I think I have been underestimating her attention span (and comprehension level to some extent) when choosing books to read to her.
So I am curious to know what other read to their children around this age. I also recently joined the library so I should have access to some more reading material. Thanks for suggestions/ideas.

 

[hakeber]

My DS is a year younger than yours, but what I read to my nieces when they visted, and what I used to read to the kids I HAVE read to at that age are:

Goodnight Moon
Tails (a great touching book)
Marvin K Mooney (will you please go NOW!)
Mr. Brown Can Moo...Can you?
Are You My Mother?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

My niece, Fiona, loved the silly sounds of Dr. Seuss at that age, and she also loved that book, I can't remember now the title, but it goes: a told b and b told c "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree... She would dance and dance while I read/sang it to her.

 

[J-Max]

My dd#2 just turned 3, and she gets read what ever is being read

:LOL

All the Sandra Boynton's are a favorite in our house, I love to read them. We are all big readers so we have all kinds of books and magazines and she looks and listens to all of them - there are no off limit books as long as you treat them nicely! DD#1 is a huge Harry Potter fan and I have been really surprised to see #2 sit and actively listen to them as well. She might play quietly with a toy if there are no pictures, but she is listening!

 

[J-Max]

Quote:

Originally Posted by hakeber I can't remember now the title, but it goes: a told b and b told c "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree... She would dance and dance while I read/sang it to her.

That is one of my favorites! Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom!

 

[hakeber]

Isn't it great! I especially love the illustrations when the all the little letters are sporting bandanges and crutches...makes us giggle!

 

[NC_Mama]

My dd 28 months loves to read with me:

Goodnight Moon (she's already memorized this one)
Anything Curious George
Bearstien Bears Books
Arthur Books
Well Just about anything she can pick out in the library.

We do make it a habit to go to the Library every 2 weeks and let her pick out what she wants. Then we take them home and read them and when she's finished with those books we go again. She enjoys the atmosphere of the quietness and the adventure of the library.

 

[LeosMama]

Where the Wild Things Are
Sandra Boynton books
Richard Scarry books
The Napping House
Native American story books (Magic Hummingbird, Star Boy, Buffalo Woman)
Little Engine that Could (I am so DONE with this book!)
Murry Murray books
etc?

 

[chinaKat]

DD is just about to turn 2.

In heavy rotation this week are Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), The Cat in the Hat (Seuss), Birthday Monsters (Boynton), The Giving Tree (Silverstein), and this really lame version of the Three Little Pigs that somebody gave her (but she LOVES it, so we get to read it 8x a day). We also have a counting book with Maisie the mouse she likes a lot right now.

She likes acting out the Wild Things rolling their terrible eyes and gnashing their terrible teeth, and she adores all the rhyming of the Boynton and Seuss books (we have many by each author).

I do find that when we get a new book from the library we have to approach it several times before she is really interested in it. Then she inevitably falls in love with the book and we read it repeatedly for days.

 

[Justmee]

didn't see madaline mentioned

 

[normajean]

My DD is 22 months, and she loves anything Dr. Suess, Fox in Socks, Hop on Pop, etc.

She really likes Dinosaur books & Snake books-pointing to the pictures and saying "Rrrar!" or "SSSSS----OW!" (while pretending to bite you with her hand.)

She likes those little vocabulary books, like ABC's with a page of pictures for each letter, or Animals, books with animal mothers & babies.

Biscuit (book about a dog at bedtime.)

You are my I Love You by Cusimano

And whatever I happen to be reading to DS, she wants to hear too.

Someone mentioned Harry Potter-that reminds me-we have some Roald Dahl books on Tape--the Enormous Crocodile, Chocolate Factory, etc...she seems to be listening to those in the car as well.

 

[BabyBumblebee]

well, we're reading ChickaChicka 1, 2, 3...A second is a Hiccup, Charlie and Lola, and Lyle Crocodile today

ask me again tomorrow! dd is 25 mo btw...

 

[IansMommy]

When dd was 2/2.5, she loved:

Madeline
Berenstein Bears
Mr. Wishy Washy (or any others in the collection)
My Brown Bear Barney (most libraries have it--it's older)
Noisy Nora
Miffy books
Maisy books

 

[Catherine12]

My dd is 27 months. She likes different things depending on her mood - sometimes she will even like a chapter book (we've read most of "Ramona Forever" lately). Other times she doesn't have that much patience. She is definitely getting beyond the "sentence a page" level though. Some current favorites:

Dr. Seuss
Eric Carle
If you give a mouse a cookie
The Big Bad Bully Bear
Anything with puppies or bunnies

 

[teachma]

We are into poems right now. Dd is 29 months and enjoys Jack Prelutsky (the Ride a Purple Pelican collection is her favorite at the moment). She's also listening to a lot of "Beginning Reader" type books as her nearly 6 year old brother has been practicing a lot on her this summer! But most of all, she like sthe stories I make up, or stories we tell together. She demands her favorites over and over again.

 

[Shelsi]

We are into Curious George big time right now. Like for the last 10 mos. And what's worse is he gets stuck on one story for like 6 weeks. Right now, if I have to read Curious George and the Dump Truck one more time I think I'd rather shoot myself

That being said, my ds is just over 2 yrs and he definitely has the attention span for it. He sits and listens. He points out things he sees on the page. And after 2 weeks or so of hearing the same story 3-4 times a day he has memorized the words and says them with me!!

 

[hakeber]

I forgot about all those great books! These are great ideas!

Personally I can't wait until Ben is a bit older and I can read to him books like The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly stupid tales, and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

stuff like that...they were Hands down my favorite books to read when I was a babysitter!

 

[ChristusG]

Dora, Dora, and of course.....more Dora.

I will ask her if we can read something different.....she says no.

She will let me read the occasional Dr Seuss book, but it is mostly just Dora. As soon as I get over this awful morning sickness, we are going to resume our trips to the library and hopefully get in a little more reading besides Dora.

 

[daniedb]

H loves, loves, loves the original Corduroy books. I like the messages in the first one - the girl falls in love with a bear that no one else sees the beauty in because he's missing a button, and instead of her mom simply snatching him up and buying him, she goes home and counts the money she's saved in her piggy bank and comes back the next day to get him. It's a sweet story, and a great length.

Corduroy
A Pocket for Corduroy

Henry is at 2 yrs 7 mos, and his reading attention span just opened up so much more. Board books used to be all he could handle time-wise, and the longer ones he would just flip through as I was in the middle of the first sentence, but now he'll read the whole thing, and usually helps me read by filling in the story as we go, it's quite wonderful. Thankfully, my mother saved all our Golden Books and Weekly Readers and other stories from our childhood, and just handed them down to me, so we have a zillion of these older books I adore. I just found a new favorite, A Birthday for Frances, it's hilarious. He also loves shape and color books that are more advanced than the board books, I'm trying to remember the titles of the ones he really likes. Here we go:
My Very First Colors, Shapes, Sizes and Opposites Book by Angela Wilkes
Baby's Book of Nature by Roger Priddy

 

[Thalia the Muse]

These are great suggestions! My daughter loved Corduroy, Goodnight Moon, Eric Carle, Sandra Boynton, and many of the other books mentioned. Also Beatrix Potter was a huge hit -- especially Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Two Bad Mice. Peter might be too intense for some kids, but Two Bad Mice should be fine for anyone.

 

[Imogen]

My son is 2 years and 4 months and I am currently reading him the Mr Men series... he loves them, especially Mr Bump. Some nights he is more keen to hear the story, other nights, he prefers holding the books himself and pointing out images that he knows the words to, like 'Hat' and 'House' etc etc.