Amy-Rose’s Reading Diary

0 to 10 Months

Amy-Rose is now ten months old and a real little charmer. She has a very strong personality for a baby and shows strong preferences for certain types of books.

From an early stage I’ve been reading to her - starting off with nursery rhymes and ‘touchy-feely’ board books - anything tactile and interesting. She’s now progressed onto ‘real’ books and can turn pages and point (well, stab her hand at) images she’s interested in, like pictures of cats or dogs. She loves interactive books like ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and seems to recognise favourite books at this stage.

She has a small book box filled with board books in her bedroom, a make-shift bookshelf beside her bed for bedtime books, and a basket of ‘play’ books in the kitchen. She will now take books out herself and look at them. I want her to associate books with ‘play’ and ‘fun’ and I feel it’s important not to hide books away on the top shelves but to make them easily accessible to her. I want them to be part of her everyday life, not just for special occasions.

Amy-Rose's Reading Diary - Books for Age 1+

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Amy’s First Books

1) Michael Foreman’s Nursery Rhymes

2) Richard Scarry’s Nursery Rhymes

3) Where’s Spot? By Eric Hill

4) The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle

5) Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings by Matthew Van Fleet

6) Dorling Kindersley ‘touchy-feely’ books

7) Noisy and pop up books

8) Ladybird First Focus books

 

For reviews of these books and more details, see the Best Children’s Books in the World section in Children’s Books

Amy-Rose's Reading Diary -Books for Age 1+