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When I went through Gabriel's vast book collection, I was happy to discover that we already had some of the titles like Blueberries for Sal; The Runaway Bunny; Goodnight Moon; The ABC Bunny; We're Going on a Bear Hunt, and Corduroy. All of those titles I picked up for pennies at second hand stores.
So far, we now have eleven of the recommended twenty four titles in BFIAR...but I think eleven is a perfectly good number to start with. I plan to order the rest by Christmas time. Unless I luck out and find some of the titles in thrift stores. I am keeping my eye out.
One thing I've been doing is continuing to read the titles that we have on hand at bedtime. Tonight, we read Goodnight Moon.
Gabriel is very, very, very interested in finding the teeny tiny mouse that appears in different places on each colored page. In fact, that seems to be the whole point of the book right now for him!
I try to point out the clocks, the socks, the bears, and the chairs. Gabriel looks for the mouse. Tonight after we read the book twice, Gabriel announced that he was going to read.
He took the book and opened it to the first colored page. "Where's the mouse?" he asked. Then he pointed to the mouse and said, "Right there." And proceeded through most of the book that way.
Anyhow, I cannot wait to get and read my BFIAR manual. I'm excited to read about the ideas and suggestions.
We have The Snowy Day, Goodnight Moon and Corduroy. We don't have any of the others yet, but I scour thrift shops like you! There's a great thrift shop near us with lots of children's books but it takes patience and time to shop it. This looks like a great program that I'll have to remember to look into further down the road. Seth also focuses on one part of his favorite books: usually an animal. He likes books about farm animals and searches for the horses in them.
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