Summer vacation is finally here for kids and teachers here in Georgia. Thankfully, the break has a positive impact on traffic! As a child, that’s the part of summer I loved most: discovering new books and participating in summer reading challenges! Wishbone Design creates unique children’s bikes. The bikes have been featured on Rachel Zoe’s The Zoe Report (which I love btw). Starting today, Wishbone is launching The Read With Me project. The mission behind the project is to awaken the reading bug in children all over the world. Today, I’m sharing my favorite kids book for children aged 1-5!
Since my mom was a teacher, she constantly had me reading. From buying us books all summer and throughout the school year to library summer reading contests. One of my favorite authors happened to be Shel Silverstein. I loved Where the Sidewalk Ends in elementary school. My teacher used to read it out loud. Before Where the Sidewalk Ends, I loved The Giving Tree. In fact, as I type this, the book sits right above me on my bookshelf:
The Giving Tree tells the story of a boy and a tree. The book chronicles the boys entire life. While a young boy he spends lots of time with the tree playing and eating apples. As he gets older, he wants less to do with the tree. He only comes back when he wants something from the tree. The book is symbolic on many levels. As we get older, it’s hard to make time for the things and people that we love. We don’t visit, call or send thank you notes like we used to. We take and take and take. Like many people, I struggle with this. For the past few weeks, I pulled away from posting and updating all of my social networks as often. I needed a break! So many of us only know what’s happening in our family because of social networks and that sucks. I don’t like texting much. I want to talk to people and hear voices and not text every so often. That’s not wrong? I’m going to start calling more and texting less.
My copy of The Giving Tree, which is comfortably worn in 🙂
Share your favorite children’s book with Wishbone on Facebook for a chance to win a Wishbone bike and a Gecko Press book for the child in your life. To enter, all you have to do is “Like” Wishbone’s Facebook page and leave a comment sharing your favorite childhood book or your children’s favorite story. The twist? While we all love a good Dr. Seuss read, we are looking for the unsung heroes of literature for children aged 1 to 5. There are so many wonderful children’s books out there from different cultures, in different languages or that are simply flying under-the-radar. Think outside of the box 🙂 Here are a few other favorites from my childhood to get you thinking:
1. Abiyoyo – by Michael Hayes
2. Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
4. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – John Steptoe
5. The Pain and the Great One – Judy Blume
6. Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day – Judith Viorst
I had a great time reminiscing on some great kids books for this post 🙂 What’s your favorite kids book from childhood?
Disclosure: I was approached to write about the Wishbone contest, this post is not sponsored and all thoughts and opinions are my own.
