I don’t know about you, but one of my favourite things is reading with kids. Having 5 children of my own and being a childminder, reading with kids is all a part of my daily life.
From a young age, children love to explore and take an interest in books. They love nothing more than to share the experience with their special adult. Kid’s can look at pictures, listen to your voice, and point to objects on the pages.
You can guide your child by pointing to the pictures, and say the names of the various objects. By drawing attention to pictures and associating the words with both pictures and the real-world objects, your child will learn the importance of language.
Kids learn to love the sound of language before they even notice the existence of printed words on a page. Reading with kids aloud stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world. Which is a vital part of their development.
Reading with kids helps them develop language and listening skills and prepares them to understand the written word. When the rhythm and rhyme of language become a part of a child’s life.
Here are what I consider the Top 23 Books For Reading With Kids Aged 2-5 years old.
PIN ME FOR LATER
The Tiger That Came To Tea
Going On A Bear Hunt
Not Now Bernard
Each Peach Pear Plum
The Hungry Caterpillar
![The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]](https://i0.wp.com/images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Kmi3MGk5L._SL160_.jpg?w=1440&ssl=1)
The Snowman
![The Snowman / The Snowman and the Snowdog [DVD] [1982]](https://i1.wp.com/images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pyupcrMmL._SL160_.jpg?w=1440&ssl=1)
Room On The Broom
Where the wild things are
The Day The Crayons Quit
Owl Babies
There Was An Old Woman Swallowed A Fly
The Gruffalo
The Jolly Postman
Aliens Love Underpants
The Cat In The Hat
Meg and Mog
Elmer
Handas Surprise
Funny Bones
The Snail And The Whale
The Rainbow Fish
Dear Zoo
Guess How Much I Love You
Have you already read any of these books?
Which of these are your favourite? Feel free to leave me a comment.
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This is a great list! I love reading to our children. Thank you for sharing your favourite stories with #Blogstravaganza 🙂
I remember Not Now Bernard and Meg and Mog from my own school days. I love reading with the kids too – we had a great book shop locally a while back and I always picked lots of books up regularly. #FabFridayPost
Pinned! It’s rare that my daughter lets me read anything to her other than Brave Little Penguin (or Pip Pip as she calls it) of a night time! Increasing library visits to try and get a bigger range for my own sanity more than anything else #TheListLinky
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There are so many books here that are favourite too. There’re ‘Was An Old Woman Swallowed A Fly’ , ‘The Gruffalos, “Where the while thing are”,
We just found Handa’s surprise at the library and love it! The others are classics and we’re working our way through, this is a great list!
When I see posts like this I always click on them to see how many I have read. Usually, I haven’t heard of them and they make for great new books to read. On yours, I have read about 7 which is a higher number than I usually get.
Oooh I loved looking through this post – so many happy memories of reading these books with my girls when they were younger (and some being read to ME as a child too!). Room on the Broom has always been a favourite in our house. #blogcrush
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Great list of books for young kids. I read a lot of these to my son when he was little. His favorite book then was Billy Goats Gruff, which we owned 6 copies of, haha.
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Thank you Sarah! There are some real classics on there isn’t there?