Today, I visited the Burbank Adult School to speak with parents about some good books for toddlers as well as other resources we have available at our library. Here are some of the titles that I recommended:<\/p>\n
Characteristics of Good Books for Toddlers<\/strong> Formats<\/strong> Parent Collection<\/strong>\u2014Books written for parents as well as books written for children dealing with various \u201cgrowing up\u201d topics (potty training, new sibling, discipline, education, etc.) Today, I visited the Burbank Adult School to speak with parents about some good books for toddlers as well as other resources we have available at our library. Here are some of the titles that I recommended: Characteristics of Good Books for Toddlers *Stories they can relate to: animals, body, clothes, home, holidays, familiar situations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,154],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*Stories they can relate to: animals, body, clothes, home, holidays, familiar situations
\nExample: Here Are My Hands<\/em> by Bill Martin Jr.
\n*Stories with rhyme and rhythm
\nExample: The Itsy Bitsy Spider<\/em> by Iza Trapani
\n*Stories with phrase or repeated happenings
\nExample: Napping House<\/em> by Audrey Wood
\n*Predictable stories
\nExample: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?<\/em> by Bill Martin Jr.<\/p>\n
\n*Picture Books
\nExamples: The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/em> by Eric Carle; Good Dog, Carl<\/em> by Alexandra Day (wordless)
\n*Folktales, Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes
\nExamples: Neighborhood Mother Goose<\/em> by Nina Crews; My Very First Mother Goose<\/em> by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells; The Three Bears<\/em> by Paul Galdone
\n*Board Books\u2014thick sturdy cover and pages; small size for little hands; bright colorful pictures; simple shapes; clear pictures; pictures of human faces; few words; nursery rhymes
\nExamples: Clip Clop<\/em> by Nicola Smee; Blue Hat, Green Hat<\/em> by Sandra Boynton; Mary had a Little Lamb<\/em> by Salley Mavor
\n*Toddler Collection\u2014Concept books (ABCs, 123s, Shapes, Colors, etc.)
\nExamples: Dog\u2019s Colorful Day<\/em> by Emma Dodd; Max\u2019s ABC<\/em> by Rosemary Wells; Count and See<\/em> by Tana Hoban<\/p>\n
\nExamples: Once Upon a Potty<\/em> by Alona Frankel; The Read-Aloud Handbook<\/em> by Jim Trelease; The Mother of All Toddler Books<\/em> by Ann Douglas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"