This Valentine’s day, fall in love with reading while you read to your loved ones! Here are some of our Valentine’s Day book choices to share with that special someone in your life.
Books about love can teach children how to express their feelings and set the foundation for future friendships. Books with positive messages create lasting impressions and illustrations that are rich and meaningful help make connections to the text and the reading.
Here area some tips to spark that love of reading:
- Get comfy
- Read your favorites again and again
- Sing the rhyme or word with repetition
- Change your voice to reflect the characters in the story
- Get creative after the story and try a related craft
- Draw a picture about the book or draw yourself as the main character
- Have a variety of materials you can read together for example; comics, magazines, board books, stories online, lists and love notes
- Create a personal library at home
- Perform a drama about the book
- Host a reading party!
This Valentine’s day, we are crushing on Eric Carle books that have fostered the love of reading in our children. Eric Carle books are perfect for every age and stage as your kids grow up and the repetition in his stories make them memorable for even your youngest child. This Valentine’s day, we will be snuggling up in our Eric Carle pajamas reading Love and Do You Want to be My Friend? as we talk about sharing the love on Valentine’s day. Here are other books that are great read about love and friendship.
Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar
I Love You to the Moon and Back