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Posted: March 12 2010 at 2:13pm | IP Logged Quote lovebeingamom
I am looking for some really great read alouds books for a 1.5 yr old boy and a 3.5 yr old girl.

I will also take suggestions on some chapter books that would be interesting to read before bed. As well as some everyday, good ol' classics.

We have a great collection of books of our own .... however, I am interested in introducing new ideas and topics.

TIA ladies ... I always look forward to hearing your suggestions.
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My almost two and just turned 4 year old love to listen to "The Runaway Bunny" and "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown. They also enjoy anything by Eric Carle, and the 4 year old has the attention span for the shorter Beatrix Potter stories now, which he loves.


The "My First Little House" books are very good, we get these from the library. The Curious George books (the originals), the original Winnie-the-Pooh books, Virginia Lee Burton's books, and a lot of the 'oldies but goodies' are the ones my kids ask to get over and over.

What I do is go to homeschooling curriculum providers (like Mother of Divine Grace, Angelicum Academy, Ambleside, CHC, Mater Amabilis, etc) and read what books they are recommending in their curriculum for that grade/age group.

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Posted: March 12 2010 at 2:50pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
I think that My Father's Dragon was the first chapter book my boys enjoyed at those ages. My 3.5 year old now actually enjoys the regular Little House books with his older brother, but the 18 month old doesn't really listen.

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Posted: March 12 2010 at 3:45pm | IP Logged Quote Chris V
I think my most favorite resource (at least when my oldest was about 3 years old) was to browse the Simply Charlotte Mason Booklist for Early Years - Read Alouds

Having put almost all of these books (and many, many more) on my Amazon wishlist (and sent out to gift-givers ... such as grandparents ... ) we've acculumated a heafty number of these great read-alouds !

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Our first chapter book with our then 3.5yo was My Father's Dragon and the other books in that trilogy- I think Elmer and the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland. We moved after that into some Magic Treehouse books.

My 2.5 year old is still learning to sit for a short board book, so he doesn't often listen to our chapter books.

We also recently started reading through the Caldecott Award winners, and have found some really great books that way. I think my 4yo's favorite so far is Tuesday by David Wiesner. It fits his sense of humor so well and he figured out quickly that the artwork gave hints to what might happen on the next page.


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