There are three types of learners:
Visual Learners (learn by reading, seeing)
Auditory Learners (learn by listening, speaking)
Kinesthetic Learners (learn by moving, doing and touching)A learning style is simply the way that your child approaches learning. Picture Books are an excellent way to develop your child’s learning style from the earliest age. Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book
by Rufus Butler Seder appeals to all three styles of learners. Scanimation is an amazing technology that literally makes the artwork move when you flip the page.
Simple prose (“Can you soar like an eagle? Whoosh-whoosh-glide”) combined with animated artwork make this book a must-have for your picture book collection. I can’t tell you who was more fascinated with this book…myself or my kids.
WIN IT! I was so excited when I discovered Gallop! that I contacted the publisher – any book that keeps my son occupied during an entire trip to Costco is worth publicizing! Workman Publishing graciously sent me one copy of Gallop! to giveaway. Enter by commenting with the name of your favorite picture book. The giveaway will end at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 23rd. I will notify the winner via e-mail. Stay tuned this week for more giveaways.
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Oooh, difficult decision. Although it’s uber popular, which is something I sometimes tend to stay away from, I’d have to stay Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. The classic simplicity of the words and the rhymes make it easy for kids to listen to and repeat with mom or dad. The pictures, while simple, also change throughout the book if you look hard enough. The moon rises as the book (and the evening) progresses. The room gets darker. The animals move around. And I can ask my daughter to find things in the pictures that aren’t mentioned in the book, so that the book grows with her a little as she gets older. I think there’s a reason why everyone and their mother has this book!
there are so many good books, but I love picture books like DK that have pictures of real people, animals, etc. this book would go nicely in my library
Though there are so many great books, one of my favorites is A Hole is to Dig A First Book of First Definitions by Ruth Krauss. My older two children, 5 and 3, enjoy it as well.
I don’t know how much of a picture book it is, but I loved Are you my Mother when I was a kid. I loved the idea of a little bird being raised by a kitten or a cow.
My first 100 words was always a favorite or 5 little lady bugs.
This is great! What a creative idea. My personal favorite as a child was Where the WIld Things Are…and also The Forgotten Bear.
We love Harry the dirty dog
the Story of Ferdinand!
Wow, tough choice. I love Goodnight Moon but since that was mentioned, maybe the Very Hungry Caterpillar would be my next choice.
There are so many great books that I love to choose from, but my favorite would have to be 10 Minutes to Bedtime by Peggy Rathman. There are so many hilarious things to spot on each page the kids never get tired of it.
We love “Tuesday” by David Wiesner. I’ve seen this book and it looks really cool!
Our kids favorite picture book is “Find Freddy”.
I love Yonder and The Ox-Cart Man and all McCloskey’s Sal books.
I love Where the Sidewalk Ends. Does that count as a picture book? I also love Going on a Bear Hunt.
Oh, I love the Snowman…wordless picture book version.
We love Weisner’s Flotsam and Lehman’s The Red Book – we’re trying to be a bilingual family so having these wordless books are so helpful in that you can tell the story in any language you want!
I love rainbow fish!
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What a fun contest! This book is fantastic. It reminds me of the flip books with more intensity! My favorite picture book is rather old and it is called “The Carrot Seed!” Please enter me in your contest. Thanks,Cindi
My daughter LOVES books and this one looks fantastic! My favorite picture book is a beautiful Native American book called Ten Little Rabbits.
Hello, I LOVE LOVE this book. I bought it for my friend’s son as a gift & would like to have a copy for my children but just a little too frugal to buy one for us….Lol…. Hoping to one day find it at a yard sale…Thanks for the opportunity,. Mrs.Clark
I also found this book recently at Costco. As we were looking at it my 2yo daughter was squealing with delight. Every person in the vivinity had to come over and see what the delight was all about. FUNNY! Needless to say I had to buy two of them. GREAT BOOK!!!!
We don’t have any books that just have pictures. But our favorite book right now (besides Gallop) is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
already mentioned, but Goodnight Moon.
fav all time books are:
Where the Wild Things Are
In the Night Kitchen
Olivia
Alexander and the terrible horrible very bad no good day
This book looks fascinating!!
Our favorite picture books are anything that Chris Van Allsburg illustrates. :0)
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Harold and the Purple Crayon.
I’m fairly certain that my 18-month-old daughter would be fascinated by this book. She loves animals and would be thrilled to see them “in motion.”
My favorite picture book is probably Good Night Moon, but I also love Go Dogs Go, Marvin K. Mooney, and Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Seuss.
We love Where The WIld Things Are!
i really like the gorgeous photos on the eyelike books, especially the Letters book!
My son’s favorite picture books are the “I Spy” books. They are so much fun for both of us.
this looks like it wouldbe a verry good book to read i would love to win this for my little one
what a fun contest, my kids love books!! right now our favorite is”llama, llama, red pajama”, this will easily be our next
I liked Terrible Storm. Great giveaway! Count me in. bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com
My daughter’s favorite picture book is The Hungry Little Caterpillar! Thanks!
I loved ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ as a kid. Great giveaway, thanks!
My favorite picture book would have to be “A Color of His Own”. It’s about a caterpillar.
My current favorite picture book is Alice the Fairy which I love because the words and the pictures tell two different stories and encourage kids to be imaginative!
Wow… i would really love to win this… i’d have to say my favorite picture book of all time is… where the wild things are…
The penguin that hated the cold
Anything Eric Carle!
This book looks great. As a child I loved “Are You My Mother.” My favorite to read to my 1-year-old daughter is “Moo Baa La La La”.
we love the Rainbow Goblins in our house
The Persian Cinderella is my favorite
Favorite picture back at the moment for my son is Shiny Touchy Smelly Colors.
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What a great idea for a contest!!! It was great looking at everyone’s fave book. Ours is always changing. This week it is Truck in the Muck.
I love Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. My daughter likes Where the Wild Things Are. My son likes Harold and the Purple Crayon. At least once a week this changes!!
Where the Wild Things Are!
My son an I love to read. We gave Gallop to a friend of ours and they just love the book. Our favorite book is “Hush Little One, A Lullaby for God’s Children” by Anita Reith Stoths.
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
I love No David
I saw this book at Costco and I know it would entertain my husband and toddler
. Our favorite books are the texture ones from Usborne. Right now its Diggers.
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