Choosing Books for Children
Infants 6-12 Months Like:
- Board books with photos of babies
- Brightly colored board books to touch and taste
- Books with pictures of familiar objects – balls, bottles
- Small books sized for small hands
Younger Toddlers 12-24 Months Like:
- Sturdy board books they can handle and carry
- Books with photos and pictures of children doing familiar things – sleeping, eating, playing
- Goodnight books for bedtime
- Books about saying goodbye and hello
- Books with only a few words on the page
- Books with simple rhymes or predictable text
Older Toddlers 24-36 Months Like:
- Books with board pages –but also books with paper pages
- Silly books and funny books
- Rhymes, rhythms, repetitious text-books they can learn by heart
- Books about children and families
- Books about making friends
- Books about food
- Books about animals
- Books about trucks
- Word books
Pre-Schoolers 3-5 Years Like:
- Books that tell stories
- Books about kids that look like them and live like them-but also books about different places and different ways of living
- Books about going to school, books about making friends
- Books with simple text they can memorize
- Counting books, alphabet books, vocabulary books