Emma loves reading books together and flipping through her favorites on her own. Our favorite stories and daily reads are any of the Little Bear stories, Poems to Read to the Very Young and Jamberry were both favorites of mine as a child, many golden books such as The Color Kittens, any farm related book, and Lost and Found.
Little Bear was something I enjoyed when I was little but I had the televised version. The familiar characters and stories are especially dear to me and the relatable subjects get Emma's attention. Emma's favorite story from our Little Bear book is Birthday Soup where he makes soup and serves his three friends, believing his mother forgot it was his birthday. Of course she surprises him with a cake!
Like in this story, a game Emma plays is serving three friends (also Hen, Goose, and Cat) but she makes pizza. In a similar way to Patrick creating our Sunday pizza Emma stretches out some play dough, puts it on a pan made from a jar lid and rushes it to her oven. She turns all the knobs around, darts back to the table and sits with her friends.
Waits a while. Then bursts out, "it's READY!!" And runs back to her kitchen to take out a fresh pizza. Sometimes she asks me to make party hats for her guests! This is another thing she sees in one the Little Bear stories.
I'm in love with illustrations by Eloise Wilkin, especially her angelic children. This is such a wonderful collection of poems to read aloud and recite through the day- all about animals, events or the bits of magic childhood has in store. I love that Emma can fill in any blank I throw her way as I read her the lines. She really has them all memorized, as do I.
An easy beat to repeat, I hear Emma mumbling lines while she plays. The pictures are so colorful and imaginative, it would be hard not to love this book! Although, it did get Emma worried that a bear was going to eat all of our delicious berries mentioned in that earlier post.
The Color kittens get Emma thinking about colors, or sometimes colors gets her thinking about these two color kittens, Brush and Hush. They have buckets and buckets and buckets of color to splash around with; with these colors they would make all the colors in the world. Those are a couple of her favorite lines to recite but her favorite part about this book is when the excited kittens begin pouncing. This is where Emma learned to jump and lift both her feet, landing on her bum.
When starting Lost and Found, Emma dashes off to her stuffy basket and digs through until she find her Penguin, which is actually a pelican. She shows the toy pictures as we read through the book.
Emma also received a subscription to Ranger Rick Jr. magazine and she already loves it! We must have read one story about a turtle 100 times and it became the subject of her play for three days. Getting new magazines in he mail is going to be exciting for her, and I'm looking forward to what the next one will bring to us. Thanks to Emma's MiMi for this great gift!
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