Wee Read - Let's Pretend

Early Literacy Tip: Enjoy pop-up and lift-the-flap books together. Talk about what might be hiding under the flaps.

Books

This is the Way a Baby Rides by Susan Meyers

Jump by Steve Lavis

This book is a bit long. I cut it short when the babies began to get restless.

Little Miss Muffet by Tracey Campbell Pearson

Read-Together book 

Songs

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream!

--Traditional

Balloons

--My First Action Rhymes illustrated by Lynne Cravath. New York: HarperFestival, 2000.

Dancing Up and Dancing Down

-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Here’s a Cup

--Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Roll Your Scarf (with scarves)

-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Wind, Oh Wind (with scarves)

­-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Peek-a-Boo (with scarves)

Tune: Are You Sleeping?

Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo

I see you, I see you

I see your button nose,

I see your tiny toes.

Peek-a-boo, I see you!

--Jim Thomas