At the beginning of 2012, my husband installed Rain
Gutter Bookshelves for our daughter. We read books to her in our bedroom,
so I had a ton of her books right by my bedside, and I also had some stacked in
her room because I didn’t have room near my bed! Clearly, it was just becoming
a huge mess:
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| Book Mess! |
So at my request, my husband installed the rain gutter
bookshelves. They looked so pretty and organized!
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| Yay, shelves! |
I love the method of display in these bookshelves: face-forward. I believe they have helped Sydney become more interested in
reading books. Of course right now, at the age of 2, she’s more into trying to
read them to us vs. being still and listening to us read them to her!
At the time we did the bookshelves, her favorite books were
by Eric Carle. The
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The
Very Lonely Firefly, The
Very Busy Spider, From
Head to Toe and The
Greedy Python were all on our nightly rotation.
Ask her to pick a book today, and it’s Go,
Dog. Go! (This actually was my favorite
book as a child!) We have the abbreviated version we read to her, and my old original,
unabbreviated version, in her room. We’ve read both of them to her and she can
recite some of the book by heart.
What are your child’s favorite books? Obviously, we love
Eric Carle, but have plenty of other books, too! Let me know if you have
suggestions for books, too!
