Something Borrowed

My son and I went to the library a couple of weeks ago and found six different books to borrow and bring home for a few weeks.  Here are the top two that we have read.  (I will post the other four, too, but these ones are the favorites.)  We started with Wiggle Waggle By Jonathan London.  This book is short and sweet and focuses on how different animals walk, while using silly words like, "gal-umph" for the camel and "flop" for the frog.  We have had a lot of fun reading this one because I am trying to teach my son baby sign language (just for fun) and as we come to each new animal on the pages we (mostly me) make the sign for the animal, then we say what the animal says, and then we read the page to find out how each animal walks.  There is so much that can be done while reading this short, but cute, book.  This book is in the animal category.

 

We have also been reading Baby Baby Baby By Marilyn Janovitz.  This book almost seems to have been written about my son because it is just so similar.  There is a wonderful rhyme and rhythm that goes along with the reading of this book.  It talks about the things that happen on a daily basis in a baby's life, including a focus on body parts and things around the house.  On each page the baby does something different with a different family member.  As we have been reading this one we have tried to act out the different events from the book.  This book is in the categories of family and bedtime stories.