Right now our favorite read aloud books are "No, David" and "David Gets In Trouble". There are so few words in the books that we make a huge effort to read each page with a different expression. It always turns into a fun little game.
Dr. Suess books are fun to read out loud.
We recently read "The Phantom Tollbooth" aloud -- it had enough funny words and double meanings to make that quite an excercise in language and patience.
We're getting ready to take a road trip and we always take along a book to read aloud. I'm trying to decide between "The Golden Compass" and "A Wrinkle In Time".
Which do you think would be the better read aloud book?
Do you and your kids have favorites to read aloud?
I loved reading "Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop" aloud -- my dad listened to a lot of jazz, and as I read the book aloud the first time I realized that I was falling into a rhythm that made me realize that I knew the song. Pretty great writing, that just the words do that. (Overshoe overshoe overshoe O...)
My favorite to reads are Dr. Seuss. I like to read Fox in Socks. But, I always had more fun reading it than the kids had listening to it. Same with Hooray for Diffendoofer School! which is a Dr. Seuss book published (and finished) posthumously. The kids preferred Gerald McBoing-Boing (an unusual kid).
Buuuut, I imagine you're moving on away from Seuss books.
I like the Giving Tree - there are lots of messages in it. One thing is as a child gets older you can help their reading comprehension and other stuff by asking them questions while you read. I asked why isn't the tree happy or the happy depending on the page; and why does the tree give so much, and why is the boy taking so much? Also, what do you think is going to happen?
Stuff like that - with almost any book. Gets them thinking and participating in the story - no answer is wrong.
As a kid, my favorite read-aloud book was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Shel Silverstein poems usually work well too (my favorite has always the "The Twistable, Turnable Man" from A Light in the Attic), though sometimes you need to see the illustrations to get the full effect of the poems.
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