Bouncing rhythms

Tonight before bedtime we read, Old Blue Buggy by Frances Swift.  This is a book that we borrowed from the library this last week.  It is a longer one, at least for my son's current age, but he really likes this one.  We read this one in the library before checking it out and he just sat on my lap and listened to the WHOLE story.  Tonight he did the same thing... something about this book really grabs his attention.  There is a sweet little rhythmic "song" that is repeated throughout the book and is really fun to say and listen to.  There is a lot of alliteration with the "B" sound and is a very bouncy rhythm.  This cute little story is about a mother and child who get attached to their old buggy that they found at a yard sale and by the end they have outgrown the buggy and find that it has another use by a different person.  This book is in the categories of: Independence/Growing-Up, Sound Exploration, and Family.

Just for reference this is the rhyme that is stuck in my head from this book:
Blue buggy blue, blue buggy blue
Be-bop, a-boo-bop, a buggy bop-a-blue,
Bumpety Bump, Clunkety, Clunk
Blue buggy, blue buggy, blue buggy blue.

A New Read

Today right before nap time we read, The Tickle Tree by Chae Strathie.  The pictures in this book are beautiful and the words of the book flow right along with the pictures.  There is a lot of onomatopoeia and also quite a few nonsense words.  I have never read or even heard of this book and I was very impressed by it. These wonderful words and illustrations all lead to them ending in "...your dreams."  This book falls in the category of: bedtime stories.

One of my favorites

Yesterday afternoon before nap we read one of my all-time favorite books.  We read, Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, which was one of the books that my son picked for Memaw to buy him at the book store.  I have always loved this book, including the pictures and of course the message.  My son loved being able to see and touch the special scales on each page.  Currently he is more interested in the page where Rainbow Fish has all of the scales and wasn't too keen on the page where each fish has one scale.  Hopefully that opinion will change over time, or at least the desire to share like Rainbow Fish.  This book is in many categories: animals, friendship, identity/self-appreciation, and Lift-the-Flap and Touch-and-Feel.