My child is about 1 and a half.
We have twenty million rhyming books, peekaboo books, etc.
I think we’re ready to start books with a very simple storyline. We’ll still continue to read our other books but I’m ready to add some variety and also have some books that don’t rhyme so much.
The problem I’m running into when looking for books is that I’m finding books with too many words for my child’s attention span (better for an older toddler or child). I think I’m looking for books with just a couple or a few sentences per page.
Suggest me a book please 😀
(I’ve tried to look at our library but they have a limited selection and it’s hard to discover books while keeping my toddler from taking all the books off the shelves).
by audacious13
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I think I was already into Winnie-the-Pooh at that age.
My kids loved the ‘little miss’ books by roger hargreaves (they’re technically for 3+) but they’re nice and easy for practicing
Little Owl’s Night has a simple story and rich vocabulary.
We like Little Blue Truck, In Our Garden, and Bear Snores On for starters.
Truck and Bear are rhyming books, but still have a story to follow.
Play With Me, Play Games with Me, and Play Outside with Me are fun to encourage interaction with the text.
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems. My son loved that book at that age.
The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola doesn’t have a lot of words and a few pages are just pictures.
Where the Wild Things are isn’t very wordy
Not sure if it’s too old, but my toddler loves Yippy Zippy Zoo. Can be found on Amazon, has rhyming, and a wonderful theme.
The Giving Tree
My son is 3 and still loves the Little Poet series. Favorites include Robert Frost: Two Roads and EAP: Nevermore books we’ve been reading him since infancy. I think the meter in these is a nice departure from other rhyme-y books.
Pro tip: read the story part all the way through and then read the poem part all the way through.
I like the Ready to Read series and the I Can Read! series. They feature recognizable characters and simple vocabulary, but still tell a story. Little Golden Books are a bit more verbose, but I like the hardcovers.