Books for a 2 1/2 year old girl??

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At my house we have HUNDREDs of books that we have read 1000sss of times. We are sooo ready for something new. Going to the library for the first time in a long time...What are your 2year olds favorite books right now. I also have a 4 y/o Any suggestions??

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I have a two year old and four year old.  They both love Dr. Suess books and Mercer Meyer.  Some newer books are "Llama Llama Red Pajama" and its sequel "Llama Llama Mad at Mama," "What Do You do With a Kangaroo?", and "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom."

Answer 2

My daughter loved the Robert Munch book the Paperbag Princess...actually she loved most Robert Munch books come to think of it...also all those Barney books (Barney goes to school, Barney goes to the doctor...)

Answer 3

Teach them BOTH to read.  I am dead serious.  I had no idea that 2 year olds could learn to read, but I have met 2 credible people (one a teacher of gifted kids)who taught their 2 year olds to read.  

Look up teachermama from the past 8 months or so and see her suggestions.  go up to the search for questions box at the top of this screen and look up, "Can you teach a 4 year old to read" which was my original question, and teachermama gave a fabulous how-to answer.

As to the reading to them, I guess you read Rainbow Fish series, right?  And the Eric Carle ones?

richard Scarry.

I heard that some parents read Charlotte's Web to their 4 year olds.

Oh, ask the librarian.

Here's the info from teachermama:

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That book is called "How To Teach Your Baby To Read" by Glenn Doman. It is wonderful, and still available. It worked like a charm with my two-year-old.

You should be aware that kids of illiterate parents are just like other kids. All kids can benefit from this kind of teaching. I have taught many students of illiterate parents, and I have found them to be intelligent and very motivated to help their children learn to read. One way they can do this is if you send home picture books and have the parents tell the story to the child based on what is happening in the pictures. This pre-reading activity is very valuable even if it happens in another language than English. It helps the child develop concepts and vocabulary, and excitement about books.

    

    

  

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Of course it will work for four-year-olds! The Doman concept is that the only reason kids don't read sooner is that the print is too small for their young eyes to focus on. Use large print and a lot of non-readers become readers as if by magic. Report It

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      Forget the research. I have taught several little ones to read, two of my own at ages 18 mos. and 2. I got my inspiration almost 30 years ago from a book called, I think, "You Can Teach Your Baby to Read" But it may just be, "Teach Your Baby to Read." The author, I think, was Glenn Dolman. It was a long time ago. And, of course, I wasn't illiterate. But the whole idea was to make it fun.

I didn't follow his ideas very strictly, either. I just put words on cards and got my child to read them. In fact, with the first, he "read" his first word at 9 months. His first word was "ball" and he would repeat it for me any time I said, "say ball." So then, I wrote the word on a card, and got him to say ball when I held up the card. Then I went nuts and squealed and said he was a clever baby and so he would say ball every time I held up the card. When he learned to say "Mama" a few days later, I put the word "Mama on a card and held it up. In minutes, he could distinguish between the two, and I would cheer him on. By 18 months, he had a 60-word speaking and reading vocabulary. Everyone thought it was amazing. Then I got pregnant with the next one, was really busy, we moved, etc. I didn't get around to seriously teaching him again until he was 3. And it was easy. Then, the next year, when he was 4 and his sister was 2, I taught her to read. They are 29 and 27 now, and are both avid readers. Get the book. Make it fun. And don't start with boring, words like bat, sat, hat. Do words that grab their attention. I've been a reading teacher for over 30 years. I have discovered something amazing. If you teach a child to read in that window of time before they analyze things, just like language, they learn it easily and figure out the phonics for themselves. I f you wait until the ripe old age of 5 or 6, then they usually need phonics instruction, and methods to make it work. I don't know if this is true in all languages, but in English, where we have over a dozen different spellings for the sound of oo, as in boot, once children are old enough to analyze, and try to figure things out, it is harder to teach, but there is that window of time, when they can put it all together. You could make an amazing difference in these children's lives if you taught them now. I hope you do it.

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Answer 4

Amelia Bedilia. Picture books that can have more than one ending---its called story building.For your older chil you might try series books----Sesame street.....and then after you see what they like to build on that.Getting them exposed to all kinds of books will be great for them.Cograts to you.

Answer 5

For a 2 year old any brightly colored picture books are fun. Especially if they are plastic and washable. But you can also introduce story time at bedtime for both kids. Asops fables are short stories with lots of fun. And dont forget all the classic fairy tales.

Answer 6

DR. SEUSS! ^-^

Answer 7

Here's some great books:

The Monster at the End of this Book

Knuffle Bunny

The Big Orange Splot (my all-time fave)

Where the Wild Things Are

Corduroy

I help out at a bookstore and these are pretty popular... I've also read them all and they are great!

Answer 8

I have a 2 1/2 year old daughter as well. She really likes Cinderella (the orriginal long version), She also really enjoys the Critter stories by Mercer Mayer, and The Berenstain Bears. Depending on how long her attention span is. These are her favorites. Happy reading. :)

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Spots

Cat In The Hat

And Guess How Much I Love you

Answer 10

Just a thought--have you considered teaching your kids to read? It sounds like they are wholly engaged with books on so many levels. This would make a great use of the books they have read so many times. I have learned with our girls (now 3.5 and 5) that what was old is new again. Both girls started to read by the time they were 3. Now the 5yo is reasonably fluent, and the 3.5 yo is not far behind. I've learned that the books we began with make great beginner reader books (not the ones obviously meant for an adult to read to a child--they come later). Alternatives are the BOB books (you can get these at the library--they're tiny 1-sentence per page book early readers--just ask the librarian). These are terrific starts to reading.

As for books, what about Click, clack, moo, cows that type (and all the other books by Doreen Cronin)? And Good Night Gorilla (picture book but totally cute). And Arthur books by Marc Brown. And Olivia. And Cam Jansen books (can't remember the author--these are easy mystery chapter books for your 4yo). And Angelina Ballerina (for girls). I could go on and on...:) Good luck!

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here is a brief list of the books my own children liked and those that i used on a regular basis in my preschool, pre k and k classes

Anything by the following authors

Eric Carle

Dr. Suess

Mercer Mayer

tana hoban

stan and jan bernstein

rey (curious george)

richard scarry

margaret brown

check with your local librarian they have lists of books that have been favorites with each age group for years and lists of award winning books too that are ususally good too.

try the old grimms fairy tales, aesops fables, folk stories, curious george, bernstein bears, hungry caterpillar, busy spider, brown bear, brown bear; polar bear, polar bear; goodnight moon, most of the little golden books, green eggs and ham, hop on pop, put me in the zoo, wacky wedesday, fox in sox, danny and the dinosaur, stone soup, the carrot seed, caps for sale, eating your way through the alphabet, how we get to school, same different, chicka chicka boom boom, and lots more ....check with your 4 yr olds teaher (if they have one) and they can give you lots of ideas and check out some of the websites for preschool teachers and parents there will  be lots of ideas