She has a pile on the table by her night chair, ready for her bedtime stories.
She sleeps with her favourites lined up in bed with her (usually around nine or ten at a time).
She has two bookshelves in our dining room crammed with books and never puts the wrong book back on the wrong shelf (she must get this from Papa.....one look at his CD collection and you would understand what I'm talking about).
So... I thought I would start to share the different books that are proving a hit in our house. I know that, in the beginning, before Poppette started to express a preference for books, we spent fortunes on books that, in hindsight, were not worth the money. Hopefully, by sharing those that have been a big hit, I can help save you some pennies and some time :D
The book that Poppette has been asking for time after time for well over a month now is one that was given to us by a very kind Multilingual Maman who's children had outgrown the book in question. I would never have thought to buy this for Poppette or Little Man yet as it is proper story book with far more words than pictures (although the illustrations are lovely) and I hadn't realised that a toddler of Poppette's age could concentrate long enough to listen to that type of story. I was, of course, wrong :D
So I present to you Babar et Le Père Noël.
Babar has become a firm favourite of Poppette's ever since she was given the DVD, Le Roi Babar, as a gift by the same Multilingual Maman I mentioned above. The book tells the story of how Babar, upon hearing of his children's disappointment at not having received a response to a letter they have written to Father Christmas, decides to try and track him down and ask him if he will come and deliver Christmas presents to the young elephants living in Le Pays des Éléphants.
Poppette practically knows this story off by heart. A few days ago I overheard her telling herself the beginning of the story as she flicked through the first few pages....She actually said "Petit singe Zéphir dit [à] Arthur, Pom, Flore et Alexandre" (Zéphir, the little monkey, said [to] Arthur, Pom, Flore and Alexandre).... which is practically the first line of the book word for word... then she went on saying relevant words to tell the story as illustrated by the pictures on the following pages.
I don't think I will ever cease to be amazed hearing my children speak French. It's just so amazing and I am so proud of them.
Despite all the amazing options we have nowadays (iPads, TV, the internet, etc), books are still the clear winners for developing imagination :-) Although we do allow (a little) screen-time, I am always looking for ways to bring my kids back to books, and luckily with the incredible range of kids' books it's pretty easy. Thanks for sharing your recommendations.
ReplyDeleteHi Tallulah...As you know, I have you to thank for getting us into the Antoon Krings books from when you did a post on Schmoo's love of Mireille L'Abeille... If you have any other recommendations, I'm all ears :D
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