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[quote=Anonymous]Four was when my kid started getting into story anthology books (Frog & Toad, Winnie the Pooh). These are nice because it's a bit of an introduction to chapter books -- you can read a few stories from the book at bedtime and they have the same characters and play in the same world. But they don't have the stakes of a chapter book and everything is resolved in one sitting.

This was also when my kid started really liking Level One and Level Two readers. You have to be very choosy about this because so many of them are junky -- they just convert tv shows into books and slap a reading level on them. But we'd buy books related to her interests (ballet, animal care, I think we had one about gardening) and she loved them because they are designed to appeal to early readers with simple sentences, rhyming words, and easy-to-recognize starter sounds (so they'll say "active" instead of "physical" since a child who is just starting to read likely doesn't understand the "ph" sound yet). My kid wasn't quite reading at 4 but was interested in it and knew her letters and sounds, so I think these were a great intro.

And then just lots and lots of picture books. Favorites from that age included some books by Carson Ellis (Home and I think the other one is called something like Tu is dak?), The Day the Crayons Quit, the Busytown books, Grumpy Monkey, They Say Blue, Shine... I can't remember them all, there were lots. We'd go to the library twice a month and get a big stack, and if anything really resonated we'd try to pick it up from the used bookstore or buy it new for a holiday or birthday. It was a good way to build out a library for her so when she did start reading, she had lots of beloved books in there all ready.[/quote]

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