My little man’s reading is getting better and better. He reads a story to his sisters most nights now and we all enjoy this reasonably quiet time before the children go to bed.
His confidence is growing. If he is narrating a story he knows well, he adds expression to his tone of voice as he pretends to be scared, surprised or excited, to match the tone of the story.
A few months ago, I read a review of Mummy Makes Milk on Kiran’s blog, Mummy Says. Kiran kindly sent me the book as a present and we all loved it straight away.
The story is about Archie, who has just become a big brother. As his mum breastfeeds his sister, Archie has questions, just like my children had when Wriggly was born. The answers are simple enough to be understood by little ones and arouse their interest.
Before we read the book, I asked Crevette (6 years 4 months) what he knew about feeding his baby sister.
He thought about it for a minute and here is what he said: “When mummy eats food, the food goes into the milk so rather than having normal food she has the food in the milk. She needs to eat two or three times a day.”
At that point, Beanie (4 years 2 months) interrupted, “Just read the book!”
Crevette continued, unfazed: “Mummy eats tomatoes then it goes into here (points at breasts) then baby eats tomatoes.”
I read the book to Crevette and Beanie as I was nursing Wriggly.
Me: “What do you know now that you didn’t know before?”
Crevette: “I didn’t know that you had to feed her a lot, like five or six times a day. I didn’t know that dogs, giraffes, elephants or dolphins could make milk for their babies.”
At this point, Beanie interrupted: “Does mouses make milk?”
Me: “What do you think about the pictures?”
Crevette: “The mummy and daddy look funny!
Me: “In what way?”
Crevette: “The hair, the eyes, the mouth look funny. I like the hair on the mummy. The pictures are colourful. I like the colours.”
We all love the book. The illustrations, by Hilda Kripp-Partridge, are unusual, quirky and colourful. Helen McGonigal’s text is informative yet pitched perfectly towards a young audience.
my favourite children’s story was the famous five series by Enid Blyton.I loved their adventures and the characters were really likeable.
I loved that series, too!
I think my favourite character was Timmy their dog lol.
I used to love reading the secret seven 🙂
So did I!
Love the sound of this book – what a great way of explaining more about breastfeeding to children. My favourite children’s book for the girls is ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ although my favourite from my childhood is ‘Anne of Green Gables’
It really is a lovely book. My little man loves reading it to his sisters. x
Ah your kids are so cute! Have a very happy Christmas Mel!
Happy Christmas to you too, my lovely!
famous five,secret seven
Lots to choose, but I love reading Peepo!
at the moment they like winnie the witch
The Worst Witch
I love lots of books, but I really loved the Little House on the Prairie book series.
the famous 5
we like the peppa pig books
; little women totally and utterly loved this breath taking book so heartfelt xx
What a clever way to break down the complex process of breastfeeding for little minds to understand. I wish I’d known about that book when I was feeding Little Mister. It took a while for Mademoiselle to understand and accept that he wasn’t eating me!
Lovely review
xx
Awww bless her!
Black Beauty
green eggs and ham
Haha, sounds funny! I didn’t know children had to know what breastfeeding is about, I guess because I never wondered it when I was a little girl!
My little ones had lots of questions, bless them!
Black Beauty.
Pollyanna
My fav story as a child was Peace At Last by Jill Murphy! xx
I love you.
Elmer the multicoloured elephant
The Worst Witch
The Three Little Pigs
THE Faraway tree
I am reading it to my little ones at the moment!
thimas
I have never heard of this book but it sounds fantastic! x
It is brilliant!
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The gruffalo
The very hungry caterpillar
Not Now Bernard is one I remember most from my childhood!
The twits by Roald Dahl
Remember the Ladybird books at school
Ariel i smy fav
Mr Men.
Not now Bernard!
room on the broom x
Peace at last, but i cant remem,ber the author
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
To Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers! Such a lovely story with beautiful illustrations!
My favorite book as a child was the far far away tree by Enid Blyton
Black Beauty xx
I love reading Were Going On A Bear Hunt, I read it to my son who is now 17 and I read it to my 2 daughters who are 3 and 18 months, we all live it.
We love it, too! I took my boy to see a live performance of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt just over a year ago, and it was absolutely brilliant!
Supermarket Zoo
Spot puppet book I read it to my boy every day he loves it and I of course no it word for word ha-ha. Would love to be considered 🙂 Many Thanks and Have a great New Year x
Same to you! Good luck.
i love the owl babies 🙂
Topsy and Tim
Richard Scarry, Busy Busy World
The Gruffalo
the ugly duckling
anything roald dahl i think because i enjoy reading it to them so much!!!
The Jolly Postman!
We love the Gruffalo and the Gruffalo’s child.
I’ve been reading Peace at Last by Jill Murphy to my little one lately & we both love it! brings back memories of when it was read to me as a child too. Lovely story!
My son loves The BFG
Dogger *sniffle*
A Squash and a squeeze
I love reading all sorts to my niece but my favourite currently has to be The Book with No Pictures
Dear Zoo
the gruffalo
Suzies Shoes
Betty and the yeti
I used to love reading the secret seven
We love the hungry Caterpillar here! xx
harry potter when i was younger but my girls love he gruffalos child and goldielocks =)
Little rabbit foo foo
me and my children love anything by julia donaldson. My fave as a child was matilda
The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson. I love all her novels 🙂
At the moments it’s a noisy Thomas the Tank book, That’s not my dolly and Dear Zoo 🙂
Read The dinosaur that pooped, it’s hilariious
Was The Secret Seven Series, then the Famous Five
The very hungry caterpillar
I love reading ‘WOW said the Owl’ to my two.
the Red Hood
I love the Jolly Postman books.
Alice in Wonderland
My little girl loves Peace at Last by GIll Murphy
i loved any enid blyton books
Mystery series by Enid blyton
Use to love Jacqueline Wilson 😀
I love The Gruffalo
The gruffalo
at the moment its father Christmas needs a wee we will need to find a new one now Christmas is over
Funny Bones, recently my daughter brought it back from school and reminded me of when i was a child reading it
Matilda or the worst witch series
The Enchanted Wood and The Magic Faraway Tree – still love then now.
(Sam Fernley)
Matilda