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From: Katcher, Ruth <Ruth.Katcher>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:27:32 -0400
I also have been reading Can't Sleep to my 7 month old son. He's not ready for the pictures yet; he just doesn't respond to them, but I read the beautiful text while I'm nursing him just before he goes to sleep.
He's more interested in illustrated (not photographic) pictures of people than anything else at the moment. Clap Hands and All Fall Down by Helen Oxenbury are just right: four page spreads, several babies on each page. The large size of these board books intrigues him; he pulls them down on top of himself. He gets very excited if he hears the text when we're NOT reading these--the sign of a good picture book text, I think.
Another good one is Nola Buck's How a Baby Grows. Again, I think the text has a lot to do with this: "These are the things a baby sees: Mommy, Daddy, window, trees." There's an opportunity within the text to point out things on the page without breaking the rhythm of the story.
Ruth Katcher Senior Editor HarperCollins ruth.katcher at harpercollins.com
Received on Fri 12 May 2000 09:27:32 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:27:32 -0400
I also have been reading Can't Sleep to my 7 month old son. He's not ready for the pictures yet; he just doesn't respond to them, but I read the beautiful text while I'm nursing him just before he goes to sleep.
He's more interested in illustrated (not photographic) pictures of people than anything else at the moment. Clap Hands and All Fall Down by Helen Oxenbury are just right: four page spreads, several babies on each page. The large size of these board books intrigues him; he pulls them down on top of himself. He gets very excited if he hears the text when we're NOT reading these--the sign of a good picture book text, I think.
Another good one is Nola Buck's How a Baby Grows. Again, I think the text has a lot to do with this: "These are the things a baby sees: Mommy, Daddy, window, trees." There's an opportunity within the text to point out things on the page without breaking the rhythm of the story.
Ruth Katcher Senior Editor HarperCollins ruth.katcher at harpercollins.com
Received on Fri 12 May 2000 09:27:32 AM CDT
