It's Never Too Early

I LOVE books. 

Not all books, of course, just the best ones.  I am discovering to my slight sorrow that the books I love and can't live without are not the same ones by book-loving daughter loves.  But, at least we can come together on a few of them. 

I love these books here, too.  I love them so much I keep them in my bedroom so I can watch when Zane is looking at them.  I've seen what happens to books when I'm not looking.  His "feel the baby animals" book comes in separate pages now. 

Really I love every book about Max and Ruby, I bought these when MY baby was really too big for them which is why they are still nice for my grandbaby. 

At LEAST once a day, Zane gets these books out, spreads them all over my bed and says "Mac, Mac", and we read a page or two out of a couple of them.  He doesn't seem to need to have a story read in any particular order.  He turns the pages, he decides in what order we'll read it.

I read to my kids.

I read to them a lot.  We would go once a week to the library and bring home as many books as the library check out basket would hold.  We would read them all and go back again for more.  I checked out hundreds of books, I think.  The really amazing thing is that I only had to pay for two lost ones.

There is a lot said about reading to your kids and that will make them better readers.  It sure worked around here, but even if it doesn't, there is nothing better than snuggling up with a bunch of kids reading, reading to them.  In the morning after breakfast, in the afternoon before nap (ha ha ha, I just made that one up, who has kids that take naps) and before bed.

And Rosemary Wells says it best.

"Read to Your Bunny"

Read to your bunny often,

It's twenty minutes of fun.

It's twenty minutes of moonlight,

And twenty minutes of sun.

Twenty old-favorite minutes,

Twenty minutes brand-new,

Read to you bunny often,

And....

Your bunny will read to YOU.