Friday, September 10, 2010

When We Were Very Young

When We Were Very Young Deluxe Edition

When my boy was very young,
I could read him anything, 
anything at all, and he would
listen raptly.
When We Were Very Young
We snuggled with my little 
green book of Milne poems
and I read the singing lyrics
and he heard them and kept
them. He wrote his own
couplet based on "Spring
Morning" and used 
Robert Louis Stevenson
(A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses : A Classic Illustrated edition
to talk about swinging or
bees. 
This was pre-diagnosis
and before he was two.
One of the wonders of
the time when your child
is very young is the freedom
to read whatever you both
enjoy without concerns about
comprehension or skills.
If your child will let you, 
keep some of that time in
your lives forever. Read
sometimes with no thought
other than we like what we
are reading together.


And help me do it! My ten
year old rarely reads or listens 
raptly anymore.
Part of my quest here is
to seek those books that
he can read in that same
free way.


Embrace your child &
a book this weekend,


-Spectrum  Mom
A Child's Garden of Verses (Wordsworth Children's Classics)When We Were Very YoungA Child's Garden of VersesA Child's Garden of VersesLeaves From A Child's Garden of VersesA Child's Garden of Verses (Penny Books)A Child's Garden of VersesA Child's Garden of VersesA Child's Garden of Verses Coloring Book (Child's Garden of Verses-Coloring Book)A Childs Garden of Verses


When We Were Very Young Deluxe EditionWhen We Were Very YoungWhen We Were Very Young: Nursery Songs and StoriesA Child's Garden Of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The delights of out of copyright. Amazon has 
no image for the collector's ACGV pop up book. 
There's a baby book available too. And how 
about that Gene Kelly cd?







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