Toddler Readers can help early family literacy efforts.
Reading with one- to three-year-olds can be an exciting experience. Bunnaby Bunny and El conejito Claudio are books that we've created for toddlers and their parents to enjoy reading together.
Our Readers are traditional children’s books.
Both Toddler Readers feature poems that tell the story of a lively bunny learning to dress himself. The stories are illustrated with colorful cut-outs of our bunny protagonist as he spins off his mis-placed clothes and correctly re-places his t-shirt, jeans, socks and shoes.
Our Readers offer more than other children’s books.
In addition to the fun read-aloud story poem, our Toddler Reader pages display full-color photographs of real families reading with their toddlers. These photos show family groups reading in places of all sorts (e.g., home, doctor office, park, on a bus). The photos model family reading for parents as they begin reading to their own young children.
The Toddler Readers' pages also include helpful, practical tips to adults as they're reading to their toddlers. These tips, or Parent Notes, discuss the value to children of early family reading. Taking toddlers’ blossoming independence into account, the Parent Notes explain what to expect from 1- to 3-year-old children and how to engage them in the read-aloud experience.
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| For toddlers and parents - English |
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| For toddlers and parents - Spanish |
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Why Bunnaby Bunny and El conejito Claudio? (It looks like the same bunny…)
Since rhymes and silly, similar sounds are so much fun for toddlers and adults, we wanted both books to have their full shares of silly, similar sounds. Spanish-language poet Ray Gonzalez wrote the El conejito Claudio poem with an eye to the Bunnaby Bunny poem and the shared art for each spread. However, for initial alliteration with "bunny" and "conejito", the two books necessarily are titled for bunnies with different names. Both poems tell the stories of their respective bunnies—however, both are original poems, not bilingual translations of each other.
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I'd like to give these books to all the parents of toddlers in my program as a start to our Family Literacy efforts this year. Can we afford that?
Because we recognize that many book-gifting programs are on limited budgets, our Toddler Reader board books are available in two board thicknesses. The 350-gsm is our "Library" edition, suitable for library use, classrooms, and home-visitor kits. This thicker-page version will hold up to the rigors of multiple-family handling, plus the transit between families. Its pages have a shiny coating to further protect the pages from heavy, daily use. We also offer both titles in a 270-gsm for programs that give books to families to seed their own home collection of children's books. The 270-gsm version is available for $4.00 per book; quantity discount pricing is also available on these "Gifting" versions.
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We're working on...
* Somali Family Reader-- A board book that will feature Somali children's rhymes and songs. Its Parent Notes will give age-appropriate tips and encouragements to read and share books with 0- to 3-year-olds.
Your questions or input are welcome.
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