From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:20:32 -0500

Julie Anne Nitz-Weiss sent me this message that she has given me permission to forward t the list. MEgan

 From Julie Anne:

I'd like to comment on how board books were used in our family. We had many board books, my children especially liked the little ones - 2 inch by 4 inch style or smaller. Both of my children liked to carry the books around with them. The small books were tucked into their pockets.

But the reading of board books was a different matter. It seems the board books were their books, and while we would read them, they preferred regular picture books. They usually sat on our laps, holding a board book while we read from a regular picture book. My youngest especially liked to hold his book while his sister had her book. And both children seemed to catch on to the difference between board books and picture books and made the leap to preferring picture books somewhere around age 2.

My point being that sometimes we get so caught up in the literature end we forget the reality of a baby. We have to stop and think just how is that baby responding. Ideally they are looking at the pictures and turning the pages, when in reality they are turning it over, flipping, waving it around, dropping, and chewing/gumming it, etc.


Thanks.
Received on Fri 23 Aug 2002 10:20:32 AM CDT