Today we were all about moving around freely within our space at Baby Book Club. We had a ball reading Jump! by Tatsuhide Matsuoka, meeting all the animals and experimenting with jumping just like they do. For the wobblers who felt more like Snail ('A snail jumps./ Mmh. Maybe not.') than like Frog ('A frog jumps./ Boing!'), fear not: it will come to you!
The little ones enjoyed practising sharing the teddy ball and exploring the barrier of bean bags set up around our rug: not very much can stand in the way of a determined baba!
As promised, here are the links to get you and your young person moving!
We had a bit of a magic session this week in Baby Book Club, thanks to Hervé Tullet's Press Here. His are books that typically look weird and confusing to grown-ups but that little ones just get and can't get enough of. In Press Here kids are invited to press, rub, shake, upend and generally manhandle the book and stuff happens! They stroke a yellow dot on the page and suddenly, on the next one, it turns red! They tap another and, tada, there are now 5 dots where there had only been one! Absolute magic!
They loved manipulating the pages, interacting physically with the pictures and being, it seemed, in charge of the magic.
We clapped, we danced, we squealed with delight. This is not a quiet book.
To add to the general volume levels, we then taped some bubblewrap on the floor and set the babies loose...
If you don't know Hervé Tullet's books, seek them out! If you do, why not read them again and try making your own colourful masterpiece inspired by his dots and squiggles, like we did before?
As promised, here are the links to the songs and videos.
PRESS HERE
by Hervé Tullet made out of playdo!
The Dot
Song LIVE - Emily Arrow & Peter H. Reynolds
