MORE EARLY BOOKS
Sitting and listening to a story is a great skill for future learning – you can start with just 30 seconds and build up. You can read from a book while the child plays nearby. After a while, and with luck, your child will want to come and look at the pictures and then return to play and, later, you can risk asking them to come and sit by you.
Early Chapter Story Books to Read to Children
The enjoyment of stories with fewer pictures can play an important part in the development of the imagination and conceptual thinking. Here are a few ideas.
- Sam Pig Stories by Alison Uttley
- My Naughty Little Sister books by Dorothy Edwards
- The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
- The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
- The series by Jill Tomlinson for example The Penguin’s Progress (strong male character) and The Aardvark who Wasn’t Sure (strong female character)
- Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
If a book contains old fashioned or inappropriate words or assumptions about people or places, I just leave them out.
