Here's a summary of the books I've been reading to him:
- Thieves and Kings. This is a great comic book series interspersed with text and pictures. In his early days, Bowen didn't have color vision, so black and white comics were fascinating to him. Recommended.
- The Princess Bride. I got through about 75% of this before he decided that books without pictures were lame.
- Astro City, Vol 1-3.The colorful pictures were great. But the paper quality definitely would not withstand a 6 month old's chewing, so I abandoned these in the middle of volume 3.
- But Not The Hippopotamus. One of his first board books. After about 20 readings, I have the darn thing memorized. Thanks a lot, Scarlet. Recommended.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Another gift from Scarlet. He's thoroughly fascinated by the holes in the book. Recommended.
- Boynton's Greatest Hits: Volume II. After the introduction to Boynton, I went and bought a few of the boxed sets. They're nice and short and easy to read. But also too easily memorized. I'm pretty bored of them, but it took about 30-50 readings of each before I got bored, which is good. He loves turning the pages of the board books because he can do so easily. Recommended.
- Big Box of Boynton. I didn't think this set was as good as the above. The best of the lot was Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs! I guess there's no boy who isn't fascinated by Dinosaurs.
- Big Blue Book of Beginner Books. These didn't survive 3 readings before I got bored. The pages aren't as flippable as a board book. I wouldn't get another one of these until he starts reading by himself.
And no, I won't add these to my 2012 Reviews list. I don't want to artificially inflate that list with books that Bowen's reading.
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That I've successfully read books that don't rhyme to Bowen means that I don't agree with at least that part of the blog post.
Eric Carle's books were always a hit with my children,including the Spot series.
I don't remember the author names too well but these were well-loved: Mog the Cat series, Jack Kent's The Fat Cat, Buster's Day, Owl Babies.
Despite being out of fashion, they also got a lot of Enid Blyton (since I survived her well-enough!). At young ages it was the colourful NODDY series they liked best.
Although my two got the same exposure to books and reading, they both had very different tastes in reading from very early on.
When they were older my daughter decided that Diana Wynne Jones was her favourite children's writer- still is-, although she loves many of them.
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