This is a post I have been wanting to write for quite a while now. Being a bookworm myself (you will find 4 or more books sitting on my bedside table at any given time) I have naturally transferred my love for books to my daughter. Visits to our local library are treats we both enjoy tremendously and have been doing since little F was a baby (god knows how many parenting books I have borrowed from that library!).
So this new section I start today grows from my desire to find and share beautiful books for kids; books that nourish little souls, sparkle their imagination and foster curiosity. In this weekly space I will be sharing what we are reading at story time and I would love you to join me!
It’s really simple:
At the bottom of each Story Time post you will be able to share a link to your own post (a link to your blog where you write about your kids weekly reads). All the links will appear on Petit Eco KIDS so that we can all visit each other’s blogs and learn what favourite books we are enjoying.
Your post can be a full review of the book, a suggested activity to do after reading the book or a more personal entry on how your kids enjoyed the book (funny anecdotes are good too!). You can include as much or as little as you like (text and images). Up to you! Just make sure you include a picture of the cover (usually easy to find in Google or Amazon) and the book details (author, illustrator and publisher).
I hope you can join me!
So, here is this week's favourite book at our home:
Waiting for Later by Tina Matthews (Walker Books) 2011
Something very special happens when a book arrives at just the right time, and that is exactly what happened to us with this heart-warming book called “Waiting for Later” by Tina Matthews (Walker Books). My daughter has been dreaming about climbing trees since she was almost a baby (way before she could physically do any climbing) and lately she has developed a fascination with creatures that live up in the trees. So finding a book about a little girl who spends an afternoon playing in a tree was just what she needed to fuel her imagination.
“Waiting for Later” is a simple but powerful story with a rhythmic flow about a little girl named Nancy. For Nancy the realisation that everyone is just too busy to play bring along the wonderful discovery that the natural world might just provide all the fun she was looking for.
With a subtle reference to the free range kids movement and the importance of just allowing free play to happen, “Waiting for Later” is beautifully illustrated by Tina Matthews using an ancient Japanese woodblock printing technique.
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