Love: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?
We get so many books as gifts. Personally, I think they are the best gifts. You can never have too many. And until my daughter is old enough to know better, board books are the absolute best. I can’t tell you how much tape I spent taping pages back into books that my daughter thought quite amusing to tear. As adults, we no longer tear pages, but I suggest, once in a blue moon, when the mood has got you, to tear pages. Wow, it feels good. Just another joy I learned from my child. Anyway, books are great. They never go out of style and they’re educational too. My newest favorite thing is watching my daughter “read” outloud to herself. Her sweet little gibberish makes me giggle. I try not to laugh though, as she is very serious in her pursuit of interpreting the greater context of the current literature.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? is a perfect book for an 18 month old person. For one, they love to see animals and make all the appropriate (or inappropriate) sounds. Eric Carle does the coolest artwork with collage (How does he do that?) and the language is simple, rhythmic and fun, just like toddler speak. Additionally, it teaches colors. My daughter has not quite begun to grasp colors, but she is beginning to and by combining them with animals, it makes it more fun than the sometimes tedious parent test. (What color is this? What else is this color? Can you say, “pink”?) The best part is my daughter now says, “teacher” and “children,” although it sounds more like, “cheche” and “chechen.”
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