I finally received the books I had ordered from the Kinokuniya Bookweb last week.

I needed the Super Baby Food book to read up on feeding Darius solid foods and couldn’t find it in several bookstores (times, pageone, popular) when we went to town the past months. Then, we got too busy to go to town for the Kinokuniya bookstore so I decided to check out the Kinokuniya site.

And wow, I’m a book lover, yet I didn’t know that you can actually order from the bookweb online and then have them sent it over to your house easily! >.< There’s a delivery charge of only $5 for orders above $10 and none for orders above $50. If we go to town, it would be much more than $5 with the taxi fares to and fro. Plus, you can pay in exact cash to the courier too once you have the goods on hand. So I ordered another two baby books for Darius to make up to the $50 since I was planning to buy them too if I go Kinokuniya. The courier came, I handed him cash of $54.30 and that’s it! Simple.

These two board books by Dr Seuss, ‘There a Wocket in my Pocket’ and ‘The Shape of Me and Other Stuff’ is from Random House publishing under the series, ‘Bright and Early Board Books’. I ordered them because I bought a book of this series titled, ‘Mr Brown can Moo! Can you?’ from the Kinokuniya bookstore when we went there on the 30th October 2008 and Darius loves looking at it.

I have been reading to him daily as part of our morning routine since he was 3.5 months old for two months plus now with some rest on weekends. He is able to sit quietly while I read through about five books. I alternate with some books borrowed from the library and one bought chinese book but ‘Mr Brown’ is a must-read because it’s just so nice to read with all the sounds I can make to him. ‘Oh the wonderful sounds Mr Brown can do! He can sound like a cow. He can go Moo Moo‘.

Plus, the board book is so nicely printed and sturdy so his saliva fingers wouldn’t destroy it. Recently, his fingers has started grabbing the pages of the book and the small size fits really well into his hands. Therefore, I wanted to get more books of this series for his book collection.

I also read ‘Goodnight Moon’ to him in the morning after ‘My Brown’. Ha, reading ‘goodnight’ to everything is strange since it’s  bright early…“Goodnight Room, goodnight moon, goodnight cow jumping over the moon…” but he’s usually tired at night, rather play with Daddy and sleeps at 8 plus easily. Bedtime stories doesn’t work for him.

Goodnight Moon is a classic story which has been around for decades and recommended by many parents. Darius is very captivated by it and could sit quietly on my lap looking at the pictures. The book is designed to have some pages black and white and the room pages in colour, probably to stimulate the child’s mind? When I first started reading, I noticed Darius could stare very long at the drawings and he actually knows to look at the left page first before looking at the right. Amazing. I never point at the book, I only read. It is very simple to read and rhythmic too.

Recently, I have upgraded to asking him, “Where’s the mouse?” and pointing it out to him. “Here!”  I read about this activity somewhere. Yup, there’s a little mouse drawn in the room picture which repeats throughout the book and he stands at different places for you to spot.

When Darius is older, I’ll be able to do some follow-up reading with him using this website, ‘Home School Share’.

Books I Borrowed

I’ve borrowed several books too from the library but they were rarely nice enough to read for long as I got bored too.

I then coincidentally found these two board books on my visit to the Community Library and read it to Darius for the three weeks they were borrowed.

I really enjoyed reading the ‘Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb’ (not by Dr Seuss but also under the Bright and Early Board book series) which is very rhythmic too when it goes, ‘Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb…One Thumb, One Thumb, Drumming on a Drum…Dum Dee Dee…Dum Dee Dee… Dum Dum Dum’. I’ll even take Darius fingers to do the drumming on the book so he enjoys it a lot. Maybe I’ll borrow it again or even buy it. See? It’s so good to read that I even remember it til now.

‘The Runaway Bunny’ is a related book to ‘Goodnight Moon’ penned by the same author and it’s a very long story which will need more time for reading. It’s probably more suited to reading to him when he’s older. The pages are again alternating between black and white and coloured.

I still enjoy reading to him though but I noticed that he does get a bit restless when I read this book. The story is about the same bunny from ‘Goodnight Moon’ talking to his mother that he would run away and become something else so his mother would never find him. The mother would then reply that she would also become something else to catch him. And the list goes on and on. It showed the mother’s love for her child.

I just read the two new books I bought and can’t wait to read to Darius tomorrow morning! They are very nice to read too with rhyming words. Hope he’ll like it!

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