I love it when I find a classic book that is also fun and age-appropriate for a baby. I Am a Bunny, illustrated by Richard Scarry, is just such a book!Susie already loves this book. It's sturdy, colorful, and a great tall size (the shape reminds me of another favorite -- Babies by Gyo Fujikawa). Though the pictures have great detail and command attention, each page has a fairly short and simple phrase or sentence, which is ideal when reading to a squirmy baby!
Recently Susie has started bringing me books to read her. She'll whip one out of her basket and tell me "dat" (meaning "read that", I guess). Usually after about 4 or 5 pages, she whips out another and tells me "dat". Every once in a while, she likes to hear the whole thing and sometimes she hands it back to me and tells me "dat" again because she wants to hear it a second time! That's really exciting to me! The other day she started fussing when I started to stand up and I realized she was trying to hand me Brown Bear Brown Bear to read again. You better bet I reread her those bookies just as many times as she'd like!
We had this book when my kids were little and they loved it. Richard Scarry books are great! Isn't it funny how they recognize familiar things so young. My kids love Brown Bear as well. Have you tried Napping House? That's also a great one with lots of rhythm and colorful pictures when she gets a little older.
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