Little Girl Blue, Come Read Your Book…

Amazingly, we are lacking in books so far for the Sadie Unit.  She’s so intrigued by them, we should start reading them to her soon.  To that end, we’d like to get some board books that will hold up to being grabbed by her muscularness and chomped upon.  Plus short books are good for the old wandering attention span.

What really stands out, though, is the lack of a nursery rhymes book.  That’s the kind of thing I usually tried to give my nieces and nephews, the oldest one in each family, anyway, for their first Christmas.  That and stuffed animals bigger than them.  I have fond memories of the book of nursery rhymes in the house when I was a kid, but my memory of the specifics is sketchy.

For the subsequent kids in each family, or if I thought they might already have the nursery rhymes and Grimm’s Fairy Tales (also important), I moved to stuff like Hans Christian Anderson and the complete Winnie The Pooh stories.  Not to mention Dr. Seuss, of which Sadie has two, but my sister said not to buy because she had most of them to pass along.

Indeed, the first book I ever attempted to read to Sadie was Green Eggs and Ham, which she tolerated most of before squirming and fussing out of control.  That was several weeks ago, when her attention span was shorter.

Speaking of Sadie antics, she did the doll shaking trick to Deb, so now Deb knows exactly what I was talking about.  This is where she takes her dolly, holds it out toward you and shakes it enticingly while beaming at you.  It’s what we would do to her to attract interest in a new toy or distract her into doing something different.  Very cute.

1. try thrift stores or secondhand bookstores.  People usually chuck their baby books, and nusery rhyme books seem to have gone the way of the dodo, as I tried to get some for my niece and nephew at Christmas and couldn’t find any.  Board books are DAMN expensive so getting them cheaper is a good idea. However, my mom the librarian would tell you that it doesn’t matter what you read her now, just get her used to sitting with you and following words on a page.  That will help prepare her to read even at 5 months.

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  03/05  at  08:05 PM

2. All those nursery rhymes are probably un-PC, or promote unhealthy behavior (jumping over a candlestick, eating pie etc.) so of course they don’t sell them anymore.

   Posted by Bogie  on  03/06  at  07:33 AM

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