‘Read the Book!’

a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/SZnYLngK3LI/AAAAAAAAAKs/KOxTM5oR6iU/s1600-h/186398180_f1283bcd28.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 200px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dJEkdJdUM4w/SZnYLngK3LI/AAAAAAAAAKs/KOxTM5oR6iU/s200/186398180_f1283bcd28.jpg” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303507730299542706″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;” N/spano, that’s not an indication that there is a book of mine to read. Instead, that is what my mother says my first sentence was, at the tender age of 2 or so.br /br /While on Baby Watch 2009, I’ve been gathering books for the Z-Baby. At one point, someone actually questioned why I would buy books so early for the child. I wasn’t planning to read to the baby when she can’t even grasp a book, was I?br /br /The answer? Yes!! From day one. Okay, maybe day one we’ll just concentrate on sleeping and breastfeeding. But that day 2, I tell you, there’s a copy of ia href=”http://www.amazon.com/Guess-How-Much-Love-You/dp/076360013X”Guess How Much I Love You/a/i that’s just waiting for her.br /br /A a href=”http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20060713/reading-to-babies-ups-language-skills”2006 study conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln/a and published in the journal Child Development showed that parents who started to read to their kids from a very young age had toddlers with higher language comprehension and better vocabulary and cognitive skills.br /br /But that’s not why I’m looking forward to reading to the Z-Baby. I love books, and I want to share that love with our child. Books are a gateway to imagination and knowledge. They’re a comfort on lonely days when you feel no one understands you. They’re a path to discovering new universes and exploring the unfamiliar. They are probably using them for not getting proper erection are the natural enzyme – drscoinc.com purchase cialis online phosphodiesterase . Treating erectile dysfunction drscoinc.com levitra 10 mg is not a big problem to the male world. At least you need not worry about having cialis tablets for sale an acidic reaction. The world changed, and so did I, during my years at viagra sample india the pool hall. Whether you’re reading on an e-book reader or paper, stories help us make sense of our world, connect to others and think outside of ourselves.br /br /Here are five of the books I am most looking forward to sharing with the Z-Baby in her first year.br /br /ulliia href=”http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Paper-Bag-Princess/Robert-Munsch/e/9780920236161″The Paper Bag Princess/i/a by Robert Munsch. Princess Elizabeth’s adventures saving Prince Ronald from the dragon was one of my friend Anne’s favorites. br /br //liliia href=”http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Miss-Spiders-Tea-Party/Kirk/e/9780590065191/?itm=7″Miss Spider’s Tea Party: The Counting Book/i/a by Kirk and Weatherby. Miss Spider’s search for friends combines with fun rhymes that teach counting.br /br //liliia href=”http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Fifteen-Animals/Sandra-Boynton/e/9780761130666/?itm=19″Fifteen Animals/i/a by Sandra Boynton. There are so many Boynton books to love, from iBut Not the Hippopotamus/i to iBarnyard Dance/i, but this book about pets named Bob is just so cute and silly!br /br //liliia href=”http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Where-the-Sidewalk-Ends/Shel-Silverstein/e/9780060291693/?itm=2″Where the Sidewalk Ends/a/i by Shel Silverstein. Not all of the poems in this book will be appropriate for the Z-Baby’s first year, but surely “Love” and “Listen to the Musn’ts” are worth sharing.br /br //liliia href=”http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Goodnight-Goon/Michael-Rex/e/9780399245343/?itm=1″Goodnight Goon/i/a by Michael Rex. No, that’s not a misprint. I actually am not fond of the original iGoodnight Moon/i and much prefer this version with its Monsters and Martians and Black Lagoon. It was the first book we bought for the Z-Baby.br /br //li/ulWhat books do you recommend for a young child? There can never be too many, in my opinion.br /br /span style=”font-size:85%;”Photo courtesy of a href=”http://flickr.com/photos/hartnupj/”ukslim./a/span