Childrens Books
I've been tagged! Marvellous! My friend Rowan has tagged me to come up with my current five favourite children's books. After much deliberation, I have decided to go with:Peepo
It was really difficult to choose between this one and Each Peach Pear Plum, but Peepo won out for me in the end because I love the detailed pictures, the rhymes and the little hole that you peep through on each page. I think nearly everyone must have been given at least one of these books as a new baby present - we were lucky enough to be given both of them by a good friend when Freyja was born.Sharing A Shell
I've tried to choose different books to Rowan (with Lullabyhullaballoo being a popular choice here too), but this one just had to be included in my list as well. It is my absolute all time favourite and I'm always trying to persuade Freyja to let me read it to her at bedtime. I love the rhymes, the sweet little sea creatures and the glittery pages.
I Will Not Never Ever Eat a Tomato
I had to include a Charlie & Lola book because Freyja has quite a few of them and I always enjoy reading them to her. I think this is my favourite. It should be totally irresponsible given that it lists off loads of foods that Lola won't eat, but I just love the way Charlie comes us with these fantastic stories about what the food he is giving Lola really is and how it turns out that Lola knows all along what he is up to. Plus you just can't beat Charlie & Lola for great pictures.
There's a House inside my Mummy
This was one of the books that I bought Freyja when I was pregnant with Theo and she still asks for it from time to time, which I'm always pleased about because it's great to read. Again, it's the rhymes that do it and I love the cheeky ending.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
I know it's an obvious one, but it's a classic and it's great. I like how Freyja pretends to eat all the different food on the pages whenever I read it to her. Last time I took her to storytelling they were reading this book and Freyja spent the whole time attached to the storyteller pretending to pick the different food from the pages of the book. The storyteller found it amusing at first but after a while I think she was just annoyed...We also have it on DVD (strike me down!) and it's so lovely and gentle that I never feel guilty letting Freyja watch it. Well, maybe after the 5th time in one day (joke!) I must admit that Freyja does seem to prefer the DVD. Funny, that...So that's my list. I've gone for my favourite ones rather than Freyja's because she likes pretty much any book and her favourites vary from week to week. Apart from 'Learning with Winnie the Pooh', which isn't a storybook at all but she just loves it (and I always kick myself for not removing it from the bedtime story pile!) Interestingly, she always asks me to read the 'Colours' section and Adrian to read the 'Time' section.
I'm going to tag Adrian, Sylke and Elsie Button.
posted by solveig @ 11:22 AM
3 Comments:
I had feeling you were going to tag me when I read my way through your list...! :)
Let's see whether I get to this tonight.
I do like the pictures in Peepo, but I'm less keen on the words. The boys don't really like it, which is why it doesn't get read that often. Each Peach Pear Plum is ace though - although the boys prefer it when I say "Each Peach Pear Plum I can see Jacob's bum" :)
Sharing a Shell is fab isn't it? We've got a couple of books by Lydia Monks (the illustrator) which have been well read in the past.
At the moment though, we're having a love-in with the Lynley Dodd books, they're really enjoying them atm.
Sylke - looking forward to seeing what you choose!
Rowan - Freyja likes both Peepo and Each Peach. So do I, but I just like the story in Peepo. It was a difficult decision though!!
I think this was such a good idea - I might start posting good books that I come across. It's nice to have some variety at bedtime!!
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