Are You My Mother? ) Board book Author: Visit Amazon's P.D. Eastman Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0679890475 | Format: EPUB
Are You My Mother? ) Board book Description
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This is the classic from which many of our staff first learned to read, starting us on a path of unremitting bibliophilia.
Are You My Mother? follows a confused baby bird who's been denied the experience of imprinting as he asks cows, planes, and steam shovels the Big Question. In the end he is happily reunited with his maternal parent in a glorious moment of recognition.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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Illus. in color. A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets -- including a dog, a cow, and a plane -- "Are you my mother?"
From the Hardcover edition.
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- Age Range: 3 and up
- Series: Bright & Early Board Books(TM)
- Board book: 12 pages
- Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (September 8, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679890475
- ISBN-13: 978-0679890478
- Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4.3 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.
To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Are You My Mother? was one of her picks.
This is a wonderful beginning reader because the story is humorous, the drawings lighten the mood further, and the words are simple and well related to the illustrations. For example, on one page a baby bird is pictured on the edge of the nest alone looking straight up expectantly. The text reads, "He looked up. He did not see her." The next page is the same baby bird still perched on the edge of the nest looking down. the text reads, "He looked down. He did not see her."
The use of repetition is also excellent. The cover question, for example, repeats throughout the book. So your child can learn to read the book with a minimum number of words to learn, and most of the words are illustrated to provide visual clues.
Most children learn to read a book like this by first memorizing it, then reading along with the parent as the parent says the words, then reciting the words, then picking out some words and reading more slowly. Are You My Mother? is well designed for this process.
The story involves a baby bird whose mother has gone off to get food so he is born alone.
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