Animal Books for Preschool kids
I play with babies and read to 3 year olds once a week at Elizabeth’s Early Learning Center. I love to read to the kids about animals. (surprise) There is a wonderful new series of books put out by Capstone Press in their Pebble Plus collection about sea life. Here is a link to their site. Sponges, Jody Rake, Capstone Press
What a fantastic find - a series of books about sponges, manta rays, jelly fish, lobsters, puffer fish and more (20 titles total) designed for very young kids. The large format, library bound books feature one very large photo per spread and about four lines of large text. Easy to read and easy to digest. Pre-readers will be fascinated by the topic and the photos. A fun related activity is to have the kids mimic the ways these various animals move around…or don’t more around for that matter. We were using our hands to make lobster claws, slithering like eels and flapping our arms like manta rays.
It is so critical that we teach our children about the importance of biodiversity for all life on earth. What better way to do that then to share the fascinating stories of sea creatures with our preschool children.