books for 3-year olds

Raising Readers, books for 3 year olds

May 18, 2012

Like most kids, my guys learn a lot from books.  And I love that what they read helps them learn about real life. But I’m not always sure if we’re on the same page about the message the stories are trying to teach us.  For instance we recently read the Lorax.  (You know me and […]

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Life imitates art

May 14, 2012

Last week the guys asked me for toilet paper and I gave them each a roll.  (That does not sound sane at all.  Who gives their 3-year-olds rolls of toilet paper? To my credit, it must have been early in the morning.) So what does a kid do with toilet paper? Well, my kids put […]

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Books I’m surprised my kids like

April 24, 2012

Sometimes things are so predictable.  Like a book with a digger on the front is easily a favorite book for a 3 and a half year old boy. And a book with a dinosaur AND a digger?  Golden. But this book?  It’s about a mouse who is a dentist. ( And a patient who may […]

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