Living Books to Read-aloud to Your 2, 3 or 4 Year Old (Preschool)

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I think few people would argue that reading to your child is both enjoyable and essential in any education.  Reading has the potential to impact their life in the most positive way.  Where do you start?  How can you begin to instill this love of reading, and in turn, a lifelong love of learning?

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

 
Reading aloud from good living books is the first step to building a lifelong learner.  Start now gathering a collection beautiful literature that will be both inviting to your Preschooler and enjoyable for you both.  Read them aloud, read them again, put them aside and then read each book over and over.  

This is a book-list to be used over a LONG period of time, you SHOULD NOT read all of these books in a single year.  Slow and steady, patiently and methodically, in small bite-sized sessions.  Got it?  Now, go forth and read ...

• Aesop for Children, by Milo Winter

The Aesop for Children by: Aesop $3.59

• A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Lewis Stevenson
• Real Mother Goose, by Blanche Fischer Wright
• The Family Time Bible in Pictures
• Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey

Blueberries for Sal by: Robert McCloskey $3.59

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin, jr.
• Baby Animals, by Garth Williams (Little Golden Book)
• The Margaret Wise Brown Treasury, by Margaret Wise Brown
• Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown 

• Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by: Margaret Wise Brown $3.59

  The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown
• First Virtues, by Mary Manz Simon
• The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Picture Puffin) by: Eric Carle $3.59

• Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales, by Oscar Wilde
• The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
• Stories Around the Year, by Thorton W. Burgess 
• Poems and Prayers for the Very Young, by Martha Alexander
• Prayer for a Child, by Rachel Field
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, by Bill Martin
• We’re Going On a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen

We're Going on a Bear Hunt by: Michael Rosen $3.59

• The Tall Book of Nursery Tales (treasury)
• Corduroy, by Don Freeman
• Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina
• A First Book Of Fairy Tales (treasury)
• I Am an Artist, by Pat L. Collins
• Now We Are Six, by A.A. Milne

Now We Are Six (Full-Color Gift Edition) by: A. A. Milne $3.59

• When We Were Very Young, by A.A. Milne 
• Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (treasury)
• The ABC Bunny, by Wanda Gag

I hope that you and your Preschooler will enjoy countless hours of cuddling around these wonderful books.  

The key is inviting them to enjoy reading moments. To build a good relationship to both books and reading. To spend quality moments elevating the importance and value of learning in your home. 

Little by little. Moment by moment. One step after another, with joy.

What books are you enjoying with your preschooler right now???

Joyfully Learning with You,

The Joyful Socks Mom 

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