For more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease’s beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, The Read- Aloud Handbook ...
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If only you had dinosaurs in your house at bedtime…. Sure, your paint job might take a beating with all those scales and tales, and your downstairs neighbors would really bellow about the footsteps, but bedtime would be a cinch. And if you don't believe us, ask your child after you read this book together. The authors of this great series use all the examples of what ...
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You of course remember this fabulous tale, but if you haven't read it in a few decades, you may be thinking it was dark or scary. It's not -- or at least we haven't met a child who thinks so. Mr. Sendak brilliantly recognizes that children are often far more comfortable with the wild things that stomp around their imaginations, roaring their terrible roars and gnashing their terrible ...
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You won't find a lovelier bedtime book than this one. Truly, you won't. Jane Dyer's naturalistic watercolors of mother animals snuggling their little ones to sleep are simply gorgeous: she even makes a mother snake look cuddly. In simple rhymes, the mother animals all repeat the mantra: time for bed, time to sleep. If this darling book doesn't get that message across, we can't imagine what will.
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This bedtime favorite is as beautiful a love poem as has ever been written. The story's imaginary game of hide-and-seek between a little bunny and his mother appeals to children's dreams of running away and even stronger desire always to be found. Its gentle tempo and dream-like images have sent countless little ones off to sleep with the lulling assurance that their very own mother bunny will be ...
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Sylvia Long reworks the classic lullaby we all know and love to wonderful effect. In truth, we're usually a bit wary of attempts to improve on childhood classics. But Long's new lyrics stand on their own. Rather than promising "a diamond ring," these verses offer to show a child the wonders of the natural world (a shooting star) and the comforts of home (a teddy bear, a quilt). Your child ...
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Hooray! A pirate book with seafaring girls AND boys, and it's a sleepytime story to boot! When the den has been plundered and abandoned for a night's sleep below deck, break out this darling book. The pictures and text (complete with rhymes and wonderfully written questions that lead to the next page) are charming young, and the tale is pirate-y enough to delight but not so pirate-y as to seed ...
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This tale tells just how far a little imagination can get you. Like Harold and his purple crayon, it zoomz off under the powerful engine of a little one's imagination, and in the vein of a certain Max in a certain wolfsuit, it also shows you how that same imagination can bring you safely right back home again. The perfect combination, especially for a child being tucked into bed. This ...
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Preschoolers fairly bubble over with emotions, and mixed in with all of that frustration and occasional anger and jealousy and ugly stuff, the depth of their love, especially for the big people who take care of them, is almost indescribable. Except of course to the Little Nutbrown Hare in this exceptionally sweet story. He knows exactly how far his love goes, besting himself with every new description until ...
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Sometimes a little humor and a little reverse psychology are needed to persuade a wakeful preschooler that it really is time for bed. If that is the case at your house, allow us to suggest acquainting your preschooler with Mo Willems's pigeon. This stubborn, whiny, kvetching yet somehow oddly appealing bird turns the tables on his kiddie readers who are instructed, on the first page, not to let him stay ...
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One of the truest joys of parenting, we find, is the joys of eavesdropping. Our kids are preschoolers, not teenagers, so what we are privileged to hear when they are chatting alone with their friends and siblings is almost inevitably darling. The stories they tell, the leaps of imagination they take, the affection they express - they are all so exquisite. This book reads just like a listen around an ...
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What tired little baby do you know who needs a kiss? Yep, all of ‘em. Easiest counting trick in town - kiss your little one and count them while you smooch. This sunny, happy little book is an immediate bedtime classic, chronicling an entire family's efforts to kiss a sleepy baby good night, starting at her toes and ending on her sleepy, dreamy head. It is warm ...
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This much-loved story makes a compelling case for the power of imagination. It also frees you from thinking that you need to give or make or buy all sorts of things to spark your little one's imagination. In the case of Harold, whatever he needs, he creates for himself, all with the help of one magic purple crayon. You've got a worn waxy stub of any color at all in ...
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Any pint-sized fan of Eric Carle's work will immediately recognize the gentle-faced moon of this book, and any parent of said pint-sized fan will immediately recognize the pleas of a little one to bring her the moon. From this familiar territory, Mr. Carle makes wonderful use of a couple of fold-out pages to tell the story of a dad who tries to reach up and pluck the moon for his ...
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Is your voice getting hoarse from too many bedtime stories? Are you nodding off on the couch as your little one pleads for one more song? Let Susie Tallman do some singing for you. Her lilting soprano magically transports small pajama-clad persons into slumber, so turn on the cd, turn off the lights, and close the door - goodnight!
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