Wee Read

Early Literacy Tip of the Week: Pick stories that can be sung, too. If your baby wanders away, you can still sing along.

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Bend and Stretch

Bend and stretch

And reach for the stars.

There goes Jupiter,

Here comes Mars.

Bend and stretch

And reach for the sky.

Stand on your tippy toes

Oh, so high!

Open Shut Them

Book One

What Do I Do? by Hui Hui Su-Kennedy

I Clap My Hands

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

Humpty Dumpty Up

Humpty Dumpty up,

And Humpty Dumpty down.

Humpty Dumpty left,

Humpty Dumpty right,

Humpty Dumpty all around.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Poor Humpty Dumpty (smiling).

--Jim Thomas

Two Little Blue Birds

--from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001.

Book Two

I See by Rachel Isadora

All the Little Babies

Sung to: “Short’nin’ Bread”

All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing

All the little babies just to love bounce!

All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing

All the little babies just to love bounce!

Lean to the left, lean to the right

Hug that baby nice and tight!

--Katie at Sharing Soda

Little Cheek

Little cheek, little chin,

This is where the food comes in.

Little eyes, little nose,

Now I’ll kiss your little toes.

--Manly Library

Read Together

What Do You Say? by Mandy Stanley

The More We Get Together