I love participating in Read Aloud Thursday when I find books that DD likes. She (we?) is very picky about what she likes. Any old books just will not do.
She LOVES sing along books, though.
SKIP TO MY LOU – This little gem was inherited from some friends and has tickled the fancy of both Bones & Lil’ Bit. In fact, I think Bones likes it better! He loves to sing the song to her and she will crawl on his lap when he starts to read. The illustrations in the book are fantastic and when she gets older, it will be great to see her reactions to sheep taking off their sheep suits and cows cooking pancakes.
Which leads to the next book by the same illustrator – 
Nadine Bernard Westcott. I Know An Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly. Again, this is a book that tickled Bones more than anyone else and we will be adding this to our home collection soon. It has great illustrations of all the animals she swallowed in an attempt to get that pesky fly INCLUDING chasing large farm animals around the yard before she *ahem*dies. Not PC’ed up at all, we love this book.
And we also found this gem that tickled MY fancy because Lil’ Bits grandmother has been singing her the Itsy Bitsy Spider song since she was old enough to focus on her and Lil’ Bit LOVES hearing it. I had never heard the other verses before and she loves to find the spider on the wall, the chair, the tree, etc.
So these are our fun read alouds for this week. What about you? Find more at Hope Is The Word every Thursday!.
Amy@ Hope Is the Word
24 September 2009 at 3:32 PM (15 years ago)Oh, this is a real trip down memory lane for me! We have two of the three you mention and read them often when my girls were smaller. 🙂 These are real winners!
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