From: Kim Caraher <caraher>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:16:40 +0930

I've found both the criteria and books listed so far very interesting, with many of our favourites mentioned. My kids as babies all loved 'The Nose Book', 'The Hair Book', and 'Hand, hand, fingers, thumb' -- I think all three are by Al Perkins in Dr Seuss format. Familiar and fascinating body parts, with absurd humour, rhythm and repetition. Because I always read the last page of 'Hand, hand, fingers, thumb' with decreading volume, as the font suggests -- DUM, ditty, dum, ditty, dum, dum, dum, one of my babies had this as one of his first meaning-making sounds -- he couldn't say any words yet, but when we turned to this page, he would go a
'Aaaaaaaaaaaa'. Very satisfying for us both!

Pamela Allen's book 'Bertie and the Bear' is another wonderful sounds book that very young babies enjoy -- and most of her other books too, once they get a tiny bit older.

Kim
Received on Wed 07 Aug 2002 10:46:40 PM CDT