You've had a year filled with firsts. Here are books to read to and engage with the most active 1 year olds, with many tips on how to make reading a whole body experience.
☀MY FAVORITE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN☀
12 - 24 MONTHS
PART ONE
1☀ Where's Spot by Eric Hill
A classic! Hard to resist looking for our puppy in all sorts of places.
Engage: While reading, keep repeating, "Where's Spot?" Model knocking on the door in the book. Want to get physical? Bring out a stuffed animal and play hide and seek with it, placing it in, behind, under etc.
*Recommended: 1 to 2 years.
2☀ Peek-a-Moo! by Marie Torres Cimarusti. Illustrated by Stephanie Peterson
This large, sturdy book has flaps to lift, simple language and of course many opportunities for making animal noises, a key to language development.
Engage: Lift each flap, pausing with anticipation, or ask your little one to do so - good fine motor skill task. Or, show them turn taking as you alternate lifting the flap saying, "my turn, your turn." Say hello, wave and make the animal noises. Point out details in pictures like the mouse's whiskers, then waving goodbye to the animal. Use the book to sing Old McDonald.
*Recommended: 1 to 3 years.
(Also by author: Peek-a-Moo! Peek-a-Pet! Peek-a-Choo Choo!)
3☀ I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison. Illustrated by Frank Morrison
A book that draws you in from the first page! I named her Ella, Ella wants to show us ways to enjoy rhythms in and around us.
Engage: "Let's wave to Ella!" Tap the parts of the body referred to in the text and repeat, repeat, repeat!
Follow with Head, shoulders, knees and toes in English and/or another language. Sing "Clap, clap clap your hand, clap your hands like me!" Listen to the song below.
*Recommended: 1 to 3 years.
(Also by author: I Got the School Spirit, I Got the Christmas Spirit )
Listen
4☀ Hooray for Birds by Lucy Cousins
Two exuberant books that demand that you soar and hop like birds, and dive and swirl like fish. Good verbs and vocabulary. A useful title for little ones who love and need to move their bodies.
Engage: Read each page then move your bodies together to match the words for e.g. practice standing on one leg like the flamingo or swoop up, swoop down, swoop round and around or scratch the ground with your feet! So many ways to make this book active.
(Also by author: Hooray for Fish)
*Recommended: 1 to 3 years.
5☀Peek-a-Who by Elsa Mroziewicz
The triangular shape and the way the flaps open to reveal the beautiful details in this book, makes it a sure hit for an interactive storytime. Each page turn asks the reader to guess an animal based on the sound it makes. “Who says meow?” "Who says hisssss?"
Engage: Lift each flap slowly, with a bit of suspense,to reveal the dramatic animal inside. Leave time for thinking and guessing. Point out the shape of the book and together, find other triangles inside the book and around your home. Use it to sing Old MacDonald taking turns remembering what animal comes next.
Recommended: 1 to 3 years.
6☀ Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell
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