The Z has three more new favorite books:
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (version published by Child's Play): This book has holes in it, and Z loves it! She reaches for the holes and uses them to help her turn the pages. It is also brightly colored and very rhythmic to read. Highly recommended!
The Greedy Python by Eric Carle: This is my favorite of his books so far! The text by Richard Buckley is rhyming and easy to read aloud, and contains concepts like animal names, counting, and left/right, all while telling a fun story with Carle's famous style illustrations. Love it!
Flip Flap Fly! by Phillis Root: Also very highly recommended. I stumbled on this at the library, checked it out, and after having it at home for the maximum allowable time decided that we needed our own copy. This one is rhythmic and fun to read out loud. It introduces baby animals and their locomotion methods, and the Z loves it, pointing at the baby animals, and squealing for the "kiss like this" part where I plant smooches on her chubby cheeks while reading it to her.
All of these are board books. I've seen a lot of boring baby board books, with only a few words on each page, or ones that just aren't fun to read out loud. But since the kiddo can't read yet, I think it is best to grab her attention with great pictures, but also to have a decent amount of words in there so she gets exposed. And the books that are rhyming or just more lyrical are more fun for her and for us. Love these books!
And for an adult book review: I'm reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. If you liked Robert Jordan, you'll like him. I'm totally absorbed and counting the minutes til Z nurses so I can get a chapter in!
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