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thanateWe have discovered something that young Miss Chews-on-everything will not put in her mouth: Koosh balls. (clever child) Unfortunately, I seem to have instilled the lesson that books are a good thing a little too early, as I suddenly find myself saying things like "No, we don't chew on library books," several times a day. Wiggling and mobility are increasing; we're not up to crawling yet, but the elements are starting to emerge. Also, the new floors are all down, so we've put back the rug and there's now much more space to wiggle about in with a little padding.
We've been wandering through the picture books, as if I sit the Megatherium in my lap and hold the book out in front of us on the floor we can still manage to read things (though to what extent she's paying attention to the pictures varies.) and I'm finding that we have a good selection of things about animals, and lots of white American kids, a few multi-cultural classrooms, and extremely little with kids that aren't little white kids. So far there are a couple world folktales (multi-cultural grownups), The Story of Ping (duck who lives in a houseboat on the Yangtze, but with a few people being reasonably person-like) and one little black boy (A Whistle for Willie I think? Something like that-- little city boy wants to whistle to call his dog, wanders about, keeps trying, eventually succeeds. Sort of thin in the plot continuity department from an adult standpoint but a kid-tested classic.) Has anyone run into anything good with a little more character diversity?
We've been wandering through the picture books, as if I sit the Megatherium in my lap and hold the book out in front of us on the floor we can still manage to read things (though to what extent she's paying attention to the pictures varies.) and I'm finding that we have a good selection of things about animals, and lots of white American kids, a few multi-cultural classrooms, and extremely little with kids that aren't little white kids. So far there are a couple world folktales (multi-cultural grownups), The Story of Ping (duck who lives in a houseboat on the Yangtze, but with a few people being reasonably person-like) and one little black boy (A Whistle for Willie I think? Something like that-- little city boy wants to whistle to call his dog, wanders about, keeps trying, eventually succeeds. Sort of thin in the plot continuity department from an adult standpoint but a kid-tested classic.) Has anyone run into anything good with a little more character diversity?
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Date: 2013-08-19 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-19 08:12 pm (UTC)Try looking for books from hawaii? I know out here on the west coast there's a lot of Japanese-hawaiian stores that carry children's books specific to those cultures. You could also look for the story of Hachiko, the faithful dog. And of course... Everybody Poops- which is korean or japanese, I can't remember.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Snowman-Blue-Ribbon-Book/dp/0590448730 i also had this one as a kid... but i don't know how much of a picture book it is. I can't remember.