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For Sitting stage - Standing stage

• Nursery rhymes, songs, lullabies
• Activity books - lift-the-flap and zip-zap etc
• Story books that comes with CDs
• Rhyming Text

At this stage, babies are more independent. When i say independent, it means, he wants to do it his own way and you can’t stop him doing until he finished. I had bought him a activity book on Lun’s 5Month. It was a soft cloth book that comes with many games. I had shown him shapes and colors and taught him to pull out the shapes. Taught him to tie shoe lace, buckle up the knot, snap the button, let him feel the different cloth materials and lastly finish of with a long zip to close the book.
This book called ‘My Quiet Book’. It does comes with other sets of cloth books, but i find this the best among the rest.

My Quiet Book was introduced at the right time. He was so interested, he would take it out anytime and try it on his own. ( He crawled for the book.) He had constantly leaving his saliva on the book and tried to ate the shapes. Lucky me, i was alway on his side when he tired, and the shapes were too huge to swallowed.
We continue reading the board books and I’ve added one on animals in Malay language for his collection.

By then, we had stop hiding the set of board books and let him play freely. He was still continue leaving his saliva on them but had reduce bitting them.

Later, when he can sit well, I bought him more books. Some are in normal paper back. As he was taught to love books, he didn’t tear them purposely. He will try to mimic us and flip the pages nicely. Though, one of a gift books from his aunt was torn apart. That was the first and hopefully the last torn book.

It was until i was introduced to an author’s website, I bought Lun first audio book. It was called ‘Up, Up, Down.’ by Robert Munsch. This is not a real audio book, I have downloaded his mp3 audio and bought the book from Kinokuniya bookstore. It cost me roughly RM23.++. The first introduction failed, it turns out to be Lun’s favorite at the later stage. ( I’ll cover this in later post)

At this stage, he would not look at the book. It was neither fun nor interesting with too many words in it.

At his 8Month. I bought another book called ‘Ted and Dolly Submarine Surprise’. This is Lun’s all-time-favorite. He will take out this book whenever i call for reading time, even today. ( I’ll cover this in later post too)

I’ve read somewhere that, imaginative books is the best for toddlers. This book is one if them.

My next’ Walking stage’. Tune in tomorrow.

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How to choose books for toddlers 0-2 (Part 1) click here.
I’ve wrote something on Newborns book selection and my experience.

How to choose books for toddlers 0-2 (Part 2) is for 4Months - Early sitting stage.
I had some recommendation that might help~ Check it here.