Books, Glorious Books

Books for Christmas, birthdays, kids, adults, for me and for you, books glorious books. Can't think of what to get someone for a birthday gift, suddenly need an inexpensive present for Auntie or your best friend, get them a something to read or a book token, so that they can choose for themselves. There can be virtually nothing better than curling up on the sofa on a rainy Sunday afternoon with a really good book to read. It is a real treat in this era of busy, busy, busy, to be able to spend some quality time reading.

A book is for life not just for Christmas. It is vitally important to help your children learn to read and to foster in them a love of books and literature from an early age. Read to them at night, let them see you reading, turn off the TV and get the books out, kids learn by example so set the right examples. Help your kids with their schoolwork or get a friend to help if you don't have the time. Make sure that you know how they are progressing so that if they are having problems they can be tackled before they get too serious.

Let your kids have fun with books, start your baby on picture books get them used to the idea of books. There are wonderful cardboard books with great pictures, from Thomas the Tank engine to Beware of the Pog a pop-up book with mix and match animals and The Wheels on the Bus a book to singalong to. Dr Seuss books are a great place to start with reading aloud to your kids, 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham' and 'Sam and the Firefly' are books with simple words, great rhythms and fascinating images.

Follow-on books have simple story lines that the child can read themselves and wonderful pictures to stimulate the imagination The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, Giants in the Land, In the Night Kitchen, Jasper's Beanstalk are all suitable for the younger reader.

Later on, Puffin books offer wonderful stories for children from about the age seven onwards, some of the books are illustrated, though not all. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome is a wonderful adventure story about four children and their boats, The Silver Sword by Ian Serrailier is a fascinating account of a boy during the second world war. Little House on the Prairie By Laura Ingalls Wilder is the book from which the TV series was taken and is the second book of the series.

Reading books is the fun way forward for everyone.

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