Our favorite educational books for preschoolers
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This is post #3 in a blog series entitled At-home preschool resources for the very tired, non-creative, really busy mom. You can view all of the posts in the series here.
I have a confession. I’m a bit of a children’s book buying addict. Whenever I venture into a consignment sale, Goodwill, or Once Upon a Child, I will invariably walk out with a stack of children’s books purchased at far below their value. I now have gathered quite the collection of books that I use on a regular basis to teach Ezra basic concepts at home.
To start off, we love these books by Jane Moncure. I’ve acquired them over time, picking up new ones almost every time I go book shopping. I love her alphabet books, which highlight letters and letter sounds (great for teaching phonics). Her other books cover a variety of different educational topics and social skills. Nanny Goat’s Boat focuses on rhyming words. One Tricky Monkey Up On Top is a book about counting. Ice Cream Cows and Mitten Sheep is all about animals (and the products that we use that come from them). Here We Go Round the Year teaches the months. Apes Find Shapes teaches shape recognition. And our favorite, Yes, No, Little Hippo is all about safety and listening.
Of course, you simply can’t go wrong with Dr. Suess and PD Eastman books. Do I even have to mention these? Dr. Suess’s ABC is my favorite, and Go Dog Go is a special favorite of Ezra’s that has gotten us through many long hours of potty training.
Honorable mention here goes to It’s Not Easy Being Big, a book about spatial relationships that has Elmo, who is a preschool favorite!
If you have younger toddlers, I highly recommend these Christian board books that put growing up skills in incredibly positive terms with a Biblical basis. Yea! I Can Say! discusses manners like saying please and thank you. Wow! I Know How! is about actions like personal grooming and other milestones. Hooray! I Obeyed! is my personal favorite because it doesn’t demand obedience, rather it celebrates it! It also takes obedience beyond the home and demonstrates children obeying teachers and other relatives. It’s True! I Love You! is just some sweet icing on the cake to strengthen the bond between parents and children.
Probably the best early literacy resource that I have found I picked up at Once Upon a Child for about $3. It was a brand new set of Bob Books, a great set of early readers that focus on the bare bones of basic phonics and simple letter sounds. Ezra has actually read the first few of these all by himself!
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19 Comments
April
My favorite children’s book is “Are You My Mother?” by P. D. Eastman
Aprille
That’s probably one of my all-time favorites! Ezra likes it too!
Brandy
We love “Dog’s Noisy Day.” It’s a fun read aloud book which teaches the noises animals make.
Aprille
Oh…never heard of that one! I’ll have to look into it!
Ashley Ponder Richards
My favorite children’s books right now is the Pete the Cat books. I love the songs that go with them.
Aprille
Another one I’ve never heard of!
tovemaren
I love the series “if you give a mouse…” – they are so cute and funny
Aprille
We have “If you take a mouse to school…” 🙂
Katie @ Pick Any Two
Can’t wait to check out those Christian board books! Our favorite right now is “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” and other Eric Carl classics.
Val - Corn, Beans, Pigs and Kids
Our favorite series of children’s books right now are the “Llama, Llama” books. They are great for toddlers.
Aprille
We got Llama Llama Mad at Mamma earlier this year from the library and loved it!
couponboss
My favorite is from my own childhood and it’s called Little Popcorn.
leeanngtaylor
Our favorite is A Mother for Choco. It’s a beautiful picture of adoption using animals to introduce the concept to little ones. It’s my favorite thing to give families adopting.
Aprille
How neat!
Sara
A current favorite is God Bless You and Goodnight by Hannah C Hall
Michelle Lucatorta
I like ‘Danny the Dinosaur’ by Syd Hoff.
Emily
My favorite kids book is “A Fairy Went A-Marketing” mostly because the pictures are just so lovely to look at! I actually read it to Ana this morning when she picked it out of her bucket 🙂
Spot of Tea Designs
My daughter is only 10.5 months but has been loving the “that’s not my…” tacticle book series. Would love to get more books for future reading!
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