The Grinch and other stories
Children love stories and are always eager for the next story. They are always in awe of Grinch stories: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat and Halloween is Grinch Night and other classics by Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss. So make sure you have them on the children’s shelf.
There is a story for every occasion and you can read a story that fits the events of the day: cranky kids at breakfast? Talk to them about Green Eggs and Ham; after a day at the beach, you can end the day with One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, all from Dr. Seuss.
Start your kids off with the Grinch and seamlessly navigate to Harry Potter. As children get older, they will want to read books on their own. Fill the kids’ bookshelf with colorful animal books and you can’t go wrong with The Big Red Barn, Your Mama is a Llama?, Jesse Bear What will You Wear?, and more.
Classics to futurists
Start your young children with childhood picture books and alphabet or counting concept books and move on to traditional literature: myths, ballads, fables, fairy tales and legends. Read them funny poems as you go along and as toddlers get older they will switch their interest to fiction and futuristic books, reading Star Wars. It is better to have a well-stocked children’s bookshelf.
Not all kid-friendly classics do well, read. But you can’t have them clueless about the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Cinderella. As you read the books on the children’s bookshelf, your toddlers will learn which board or picture book they’ll ask you to read to them.
They will point to books for the bedtime story, and as they grow up to age twelve, they will read Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Gulliver’s Travels and Lorna Doone, or Little Lord Fauntleroy.
As the years go by, they will be avid fans of the superheroes: Aquaman and Zatana. Don’t forget to share your enthusiasm for Batman and Superman and the Star Wars team with them. Take them to the movies for some adrenaline-pumping action and you’ll be amazed at their sophistication when it comes to comic book and book heroes. Thanks to the collection on the children’s shelf and to the cinema.
Should you introduce Shakespeare?
Any child will have to face Shakespeare in school. It would be smart to put them in Shakespeare, the easier reading of course, like Geraldine McCaughrean’s Shakespeare Stories.
When the time comes, your Shakespeare-savvy child has an idea of Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The paperback edition would be a nice addition to a children’s library, even if your child is already eleven years old.
As the years go by, you’ll marvel at the breadth and variety of your child’s collection and stash of knowledge and vocabulary. So what’s on the Pop shelf now?
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