What books do you guys/your kids like? Mine is recently into Calvin & Hobbes. He can’t read yet, so I’ll either read them to him or he’ll just browse the pictures and start laughing hysterically at the funny faces they make. I kind of think C&H might be a bad influence because he’s learning that getting into trouble is fun lol.
Also I don’t care for The Giving Tree. My kid likes it ok because of the pictures, but he doesn’t get why the story is kind of a downer yet.
My kid (3) likes a lot of different stuff. The current favorites are the Nibbles the Book Eating Monster books, but as a parent doing the reading, it’s hard to know what to read and what not (on every page there’s usually a lot of text that, if I read it all, she gets bored and wants to move on.
In general, I wouldn’t worry about stuff being too emotionally mature or that they’ll miss the point. If they love the story, go for it. They will like to come back to it when they’re a little older and see a lot more of the depth of the story.
What books do you guys/your kids like? Mine is recently into Calvin & Hobbes. He can’t read yet, so I’ll either read them to him or he’ll just browse the pictures and start laughing hysterically at the funny faces they make. I kind of think C&H might be a bad influence because he’s learning that getting into trouble is fun lol.
Also I don’t care for The Giving Tree. My kid likes it ok because of the pictures, but he doesn’t get why the story is kind of a downer yet.
My kid (3) likes a lot of different stuff. The current favorites are the Nibbles the Book Eating Monster books, but as a parent doing the reading, it’s hard to know what to read and what not (on every page there’s usually a lot of text that, if I read it all, she gets bored and wants to move on.
In general, I wouldn’t worry about stuff being too emotionally mature or that they’ll miss the point. If they love the story, go for it. They will like to come back to it when they’re a little older and see a lot more of the depth of the story.