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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
There are board books for Dr Seuss. They are mainly the younger beginner books like Hop on Pop and not Green Eggs and Ham, the Cat and the Hat and the like. Most kids don't get into those until they are closer to four or a bit older.
Board books for the 6 month to 2 year old crowd are suppose to have big pictures and few words. We violate the few words rule with many of the books but that is ok. Most of the wordier ones we read once and then spend a lot of time flipping through the pages, pointing at pictures, and giggling. You add more words as the kid is ready for them and has the attention span to listen to them. That will vary from kid to kid.
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I understand what you're saying about the board books--I always had those for my kids. But...from the time they were born I read to them from other books. Shel Silverstein, Dr.Seuss, Maurice Sendak...and I was sometimes known to read aloud from whatever novel I was reading while I was sitting with an infant trying to get them to sleep. My children always knew which books were theirs, and which books were mine (or another bigger person) For Board books, we would read them together a few times, and then they would "read" them back to me, or to the cat, or to anyone who would sit still for long enough. (even before they could form real words) I have a picture of my daughter sitting with the cat, "reading" a story to it, from when she was about 11 months old.
So yes...to summarize, in my opinion, board books (and cloth books) are great, and very important for small children, but even infants can and do benefit from Dr. Seuss and any other stories...and it doesn't matter what format they are in.
Shari