FUN FAMILY READS FOR ALL AGES
Recommended: Nursery Rhymes
PARENTS, are you looking for some family reading to interest your kids of all ages this summer?
Why reinvent the wheel when you can entertain as generations of parents before you have done? Discover (or rediscover) why nursery rhymes have survived for hundreds of years and are told in many cultures.
Calm your babies and toddlers and delight kids through early elementary grades by reading aloud from classic nursery rhyme collections. Fans of Strega Nona and children who pore over pictures will love the funny illustrations that accompany each of the 200+ rhymes.
Recommended: dePaola, Tomie. (1985). Mother Goose. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Preschoolers will also enjoy holding and reading companion board books of simple individual rhymes with colorful and incredibly detailed handmade felt backgrounds.
Recommended: Mavor, Salley. (2006). Wee Willie Winkie. New York: Houghton Mifflin. (Also see Salley Mavor’s Pocketful of posies, a treasury of nursery rhymes for others.)
The whole family, especially elementary schoolers, will really enjoy the twists and new endings of familiar nursery rhymes offered in a book designed specifically for taking turns reading aloud.
Recommended: Hoberman, Mary Ann. Illustrated by Michael Emberley. (2005). Very short Mother Goose tales to read together. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
Draw older children into the fun with technology, by letting them access a traditional rhyme collection on the Internet. Kids will enjoy noticing differences in archaic word spellings (for example “rime” instead of “rhyme”) and find humor in the fashion choices.
Recommended: The real Mother Goose, junior edition. (1916). New York: Rand McNally & Company. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/realmothergoosewrig#page/10/mode/2up
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