Top 12 Summer Reads for Kids Under 6
On those lazy days at the beach, what better way do you have to connect with your children than through learning fun. When you’re not writing letters in the sand and counting incoming waves, lay down under an umbrella and jump into one of these stories. Here are our picks for the under-six set. (Just don’t get so involved you forget to reapply the sunscreen).
1. Here Comes Hortense, by Heather Hartt-Sussman
2. Boo: The Life of the World’s Cutest Dog, by J.H. Lee
3. E- Mergency! by Tom Lichtenheld and Ezra Fields-Meyer
4. Rokko by Paola Opal
5. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, by Mo Willems
6. The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
7. Mother Goose, ed. Iona Opie
8. Alice in Wonderland, (Disney Edition)
9. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
10. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
11. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
12. Corduroy, by Don Freeman
Available at Chapters/Indigo.