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    Treasured Old Booklist: There Is No App To Replace Your Lap

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    Treasured Old Booklist: There Is No App To Replace Your Lap. Mama rabbit and her children

    This booklist of older (sadly-forgotten) children’s books is a treasure. This doesn’t mean they are not worthy of our time, but an evidence of how far we’ve actually slipped in the quality of our reading material.

    I loved listening to my mom read books like these in different voices to us when we were little. She told me she learned it from her mother, my Nana. She could make us laugh just by putting the emPHASis on the wrong sylLABle. She used an itsy-bitsy, squeaky mouse voice and a hysterical, booming giant voice. She tried to do all the voices. Sometime it was horrid, but always it made us feel engaged and very loved.

    100 Wholehearted Books to Help Fight Back the Culture
    Print this booklist before going to the library!
     

    Learning “on the lap” 

    When your children are really little, snuggling on your lap or at your side to read is simply ideal. They grow up so fast that I wanted to make the most of those years, and by God’s grace, we did!

    Before the twins were born, our oldest had me all to himself. Once the twins came, I needed to make my time go further, so I co-nursed the twins (one on each side) and read aloud at the same time, though at first the babies slept through most of it. It was a weird and wonderful arrangement of pillows. It didn’t always work out like when they were colicky or sick.

    When they were 12 months (still nursing), I told them we couldn’t read unless they helped me make it happen – and they usually did! I could have the 2 nursing at one time (their legs were way out on the couch as they grew), so I gave our 3 year-old something to manipulate on the floor at my feet. (These are some of those hands-on STEM toys).

     

    Sally Clarkson gives an idea of how this looks as your children graduate from the lap to activities while you read:

    “Reading aloud to children is as natural as mothering itself. It is meant to be a delightful, bonding time together and a fantastic way to disciple your children through stories. In our home they always had some sort of an activity to do during reading time. At the beginning of each school day, I would give my children a few moments to gather their assorted activities and get ready to read. We had two cabinets in our kitchen dedicated to read-aloud activities such as Play-Dough, water paints, finger knitting, puzzles, beads, jewelry kits, etc.. In our reading area were bins with Lego’s and other toys. (When we started to read, the children would have their stack of Lego’s ready, then have to wait until I got to a stopping point to gather more. They are super loud when they shuffle through the box.) As my children got older, we graduated to hot glue guns, knitting, sewing machines, soldering irons for metal work, and my daughter even went through a time of using a small blow torch to make glass jewelry.” ~Sally Clarkson

    Treasured Old Booklist: There Is No App To Replace Your Lap. old books

    Most of the books in this extensive booklist you will have never heard of. 

     

    Booklist for toddlers

    The Carrot Seed: 75th Anniversary by Crockett Johnson

    Old Mother West Wind by Thornton Burgess
    Island Boy by Barbara Cooney

    Maple Hill Farm books: Our Animal Friends and The Year at Maple Hill Farm by the Provensens

    Jamberry by Bruce Degen
    Silly Sally by Audrey Wood
    We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

    On Market Street by Arnold Lobel 

    Fritz and the Beautiful Horses and Gingerbread Baby (a board book) by Jan Brett  
    Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
    Pelle’s New Suit (and so many others by Elsa Beskow)
    Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Bruce Degen

    Children of the Forest: Mini Edition by Elsa Beskow

    Each Peach Pear Plum Janet and Allan Ahlberg (and others of theirs)
    Time for Bed by Mem Fox
    Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

     

    Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
    Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
    Obadiah books by Brinton Turkle–a MUST for little boys!

    The Old Woman and Her Pig by Rosanne Litzinger
    Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
    Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
    Catch Me and Kiss Me and Say It Again by Clyde and Wendy Watson (nursery rhymes; OOP)
    Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
    Sandra Boynton’s Board Books

    The Mitten by Jan Brett

    3 kids books

     

    Booklist for Young Preschoolers

    The Napping House by Audrey Wood
    Angus Lost by Marjorie Flack
    Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
    Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
    If Jesus Came to My House by Joan Gail Thomas
    Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
    The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
    books by Mem Fox, especially Koala Lou, Possum Magic 

    Booklist for Kindergarteners

    Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
    Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

    The Bravest Man in the World by Patricia Polacco

    Yoni Wondernose by Marguerite deAngeli
    Thee, Hannah by Marguerite deAngeli
    Basket Moon by Mary Lyn Ray
    Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
    A is for Annabelle by Tasha Tudor
    1 is One by Tasha Tudor
    A Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
    One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
    Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem

     

    Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Illustrated by Susan Jeffers
    Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha
    Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin

    Storm in the Night by Pat Cummings
    Owl Moon by John Schoenherr
    The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
    Jan Brett Christmas Treasury by Jan Brett (A collection of stories with all the art. We particularly love “The Trouble With Trolls” story.)

    3 old books

     

    Booklist for Preschool and Up:

    Art books and “I Spy” books by Lucy Micklethwait
    I’m Listening, God, Psalm 19 for Children by Elspeth Campbell Murphy, and others of her Psalms for children (OOP)
    Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack
    The King with Six Friends by Jay Williams (OOP)
    Miss Suzy by Miriam Young 
    Books by Tomie dePaola (all)

    Around the Year: Mini edition by Else Beskow

    Year at Maple Hill Farm and others by Alice and Martin Provensen
    When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant 
    The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
    Babar books (the originals by Jean (and his son Laurent) De Brunhoff, not the TV spin-offs)
    What Do You Do, Dear, and What Do You Say, Dear by Sesyle Joslin–comical books about manners.

     

    Rose in My Garden by Arnold Lobel
    The Man Who Loved Books by Jean Fritz (OOP)
    The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
    The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper and the Haumans
    The Story of Little Babaji
    THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE
    Storytelling and Other Poems, Childcraft (Volume 2) or Any older volume 2 of Childcraft that was published pre-1960

    3 old books

    Longer novels for read alouds appropriate for younger children:

    Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
    Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
    The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley
    My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannet
    The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
    Babe, The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
    Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond

     

    Ivy Cottage and sequels by E. J. Taylor (OOP)
    The Princess and the Admiral by Charlotte Pomerantz 
    The Story of Holly and Ivy and others by Rumer Godden
    The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes 
    The Plain Princess by Phyllis McGinley (OOP)

    And that ends my booklist!

    Reading aloud really is one of the most consequential, beautiful, and nourishing things we can do. The list of good effects of reading aloud is almost without end.

    Treasured Old Books
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    (FYI: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)

    Request your librarian to put these titles on their bookshelf.

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