The Avid Reader

Luke has been getting into books gradually over the past month. His favorites are Margaret Wise Brown's "Good Night Moon"- an all-time bedtime favorite; Richard Scarry's "Trucks and cars and things that go"- a wonderful beginning for boys' lifelong fascination with vehicles; Nancy Tafuri's "You are special, Little one" - a heart-warming book reassuring children of how much their parents love them; and Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" - an American classic where the hungry catepillar literally eats "through" the book. These are the ones he truly enjoys reading. His favorite CHEWING books are: "the Cheerios book," (maybe the cheerios look too real); "Good dog Carl," and "the Sesame street" baby box set. The strong cardboard binding and cardboard pages of these books elicit all kinds of lure for Luke's itchy gums.

Exhibit #1: Trucks and Cars and things that go
Exhibit #2: The little people's farm book (Used to be one of his favorite chewing book, but I put it away to salvage whatever's left, and only bring it out under adult supervision, as below).Exhibit #3: Tommy Tippee Bathbook - waterproof! indestructible! Our favorite book to bring for our outings because of its enduring nature. Exhibit #4: Curious George - another sort of a favorite, but Luke never managed to finish the whole book (yet) because the story is quite long for his age.
Exhibit #5: Caught in the act!! Chewing a Sesame Street boardbook.