I spy everyone!

Frankie's favourite book is Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allen Ahlberg. We have to read it at least two or three times a day and she loves the rhyming, she loves finding the images, she joins in with me and she's starting to recognise some of the words on the page. I know repetition is how she learns and it's great that she is but oh, am I growing tired of the book!

At this stage, I'm fairly sure I could recite the entire poem without looking:

Each Peach Pear Plum
I spy Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb in the cupboard
I spy Mother Hubbard
Mother Hubbard in the cellar
I spy Cinderella
Cinderella on the stairs
I spy the Three Bears
... and so on

She also loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Wonkey Donkey. I'd like to introduce her to some of my favourites from childhood, The Runaway Rollerskate and The Jolly Postman - and at Christmas to The Night Before Christmas.

I've asked friends and family for more books for her birthday - especially the search and find because she loves those. We've bought her Where's The Unicorn, Giraffes Can't Dance and a couple of beginner activity books like letters and numbers.