Yesterday I received an order from Amazon with three more books for Carrie. Two of them are, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, about puppies.
Here’s a list of the books she currently owns – the bolded ones are the ones we read to her nearly daily:
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Alphabet Foil Fun Baby Faces Baby’s First Bible Songs Catholic Book of Bible Stories Counting Kisses Doggies Find the Puppy Friends of All Sizes (cloth) Good Night, Baby Good Night, Sweet Butterflies Guess How Much I Love You |
How To Count (cloth) I Love You (cloth taggies) Julie’s Jungle Language Nursery Little Windows: In the Park Mirror Me! My Many Colored Days My Puppy (cloth) Noah’s Ark (cloth) Peekaboo, Puppy! Puppies |
Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever Snow What Fun! Snuggle Puppy Some Dogs Do Spot’s First Easter That’s Not My Bunny That’s Not My Dinosaur That’s Not My Puppy Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? Where Is The Green Sheep? Where’s Spot? |
Her favorites really seem to be the Usborne books (Puppies, That’s Not My Bunny/Dinosaur/Puppy) – I think because the illustrations are simpler and more contrast-y than most of the others, and the pages are thicker and easier to grab. Out of 33 books, a whopping 11 are about – or have as main characters – puppies! Ah, well, I suppose she’ll eventually learn that there are other animals besides puppies, right? Besides, she gets so excited about her puppies, and the ones on the Baby Einstein Neighborhood Animals DVD we Netflix’d. (For the record, she also giggles at the bunnies and mice on that DVD.)
Oh, and before anyone gets on my case about buying so many books for a baby who can’t appreciate them yet, several of them were gifts. And she loves “reading” books. She looks at them, tries to turn the pages, pats at the touchy-feely bits, and tries very hard to eat them. (We’re working on the “no books in the mouth” rule. Now if we could just get Murphy to follow that rule – apparently, board books are quite tasty…)