For as long as I can remember I have almost always had a book or two beside my bed. My earliest memories of bedtime from my childhood revolve around stories read aloud to me by my parents. Books could be found in every room of our family home. I was surrounded by them.
There was no question that I would continue to spread the joy of reading when my own children came along. My picture book collection expanded to include titles they would enjoy. Recently I introduced chapter books which we read together nightly.
The great thing about travel and adventure is that you can bring a book along with you. Indeed, books can also lead your imaginations on an adventure making them the most cost effective way of seeing the world.
Today I’m introducing a new section to the KidBucketList: “Story Time” where I will introduce titles of books we are reading. Some you may also like to add to your bookshelf.
I quite like Mem Fox’s proposal that parents read 3 stories with their children each day. It could be the same story repeated three times, or three different books. The choice is yours. Each week I will gather together 7 picture books and a chapter book that I will share with my two kids each week. Sometimes there will be more (given Miss N’s love of reading there is no doubt she will pour over many more!), but on other weeks we may indeed repeat the same 3-4 books throughout the week. My hope is that by the end of 2015 we can create a list of 100+ books.
Please join our weekly Story Time!
Reading my kids the evening stories is one of my favourite moments of the day too, and I am super happy they love that moment every night too!
An endless selection of story- timebooks for the child traveller.
If you and your family love reading together, never run out of books while on the road with the RLQ Tourist Card for travellers. State Library of Queensland in collaboration with local governments provides free public library services to people travelling through rural areas. The RLQ Tourist Card is an initiative of Rural Libraries Queensland (RLQ), a network of libraries in regions with populations less than 15,000. The RLQ Tourist Card is available to anyone travelling through outback and regional Queensland, and provides free access to more than 250,000 audiobooks, ebooks, books, music, movies and more for six months. Tourist members can use their membership to borrow items at over 60 rural libraries and return them at another. There are books for young people of all ages. There are board books for babies, picture books including classic Australian titles like Possum Magic, My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch, and Where is the Green Sheep? as well as current award winners and new releases. You can also borrow non fiction on a range of popular topics like dinosaurs and jokes. Why not download TumbleBooks for kids or attend a rhyme time session? There’s a great selection for teens too. With all this on offer for free you don’t have to skimp on reading when you’re away! To request a free RLQ Tourist Card and keep on reading visit bit.ly/1DyzCTB.
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Karen