2012 Book Challenge

[hypatia]

After reading about Waterdreamer's 1500 book challenge
http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/our-1500-book-challenge!!/new/#new
I've decided to read 1000 different books to my daughter this year! That's 2.77 book a day. So far we read 2 at night and make up on the week-ends!

My rules are simple:
I count as one a book which lasts at least 5 mn (not a simple picture book), and chapters count as one.
We read books more than once but those extra readings don't count.
When we're finished reading at night, I simply put the books on the floor and write their titles on my litle booklet the next day or the day after.
I'll be sharing our favorite books, and am always on the lookout for suggestions. 

So far, Aangeles and Waterdreamer are on board, and NadiaD is considering it 
It'll be an added motivation to share this challenge with others :-)

[waterdreamer]

Yep I'm in, but we started a chart in June, so I'll be going from June/11-Jun12. Its just easier to go from my little man's birthday.

I count any book that we read together, I read to him or he reads to me.
Repeats are allowed because he is learning to read and repetition is good for that.

[sonya_post]

I'm in. I don't think this will be a problem. When I tell my son we have to stop LR the next word out of his mouth is "book".

I am posting a link put together by the classical homeschool loop. I have posted it before, but I do think it is a wonderful list of books separated by age. http://www.classical-homeschooling.org/celoop/1000-primary.html    Many of the primary 1-3 books are fine for an advanced 2-3 year old.

One of our favorites is The Egg by M.P. Robertson. The illustrations are delightful. 

[MamaOfWill]

Wow!! 1000 books!  Home made books count don't they? How about book apps like omBooks and Touchy Books?

I think I'm also going to try, but I'm not as organized and baba sometimes sits for close to an hour with reading stories, other days he's not really interested. 

Good luck to everyone trying, but don't suck the fun out of it, I'd say having fun with one book over and over is better than pushing for 15 odd books a week.

By the way, you guys get books from the public library?

[waterdreamer]

Wow!! 1000 books!  Home made books count don't they? How about book apps like omBooks and Touchy Books?

I think I'm also going to try, but I'm not as organized and baba sometimes sits for close to an hour with reading stories, other days he's not really interested. 

Good luck to everyone trying, but don't suck the fun out of it, I'd say having fun with one book over and over is better than pushing for 15 odd books a week.

By the way, you guys get books from the public library?

You can repeat books, thats just Hypathia personal challenge rules. We have allow repeat books.

[Kimba15]

Im in too!! Just blogged about it http://intellikidsdownunder.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-1000-book-challenge-upping-anti-on.html

[hypatia]

Great to see everyone joining in!
Kimba, I always enjoy reading your blog.

@Mamaofwill: I use mainly my own childhood books and books from the library (although their collection is very limited, and I'm quite picky with what we read)
I must mention that I no longer follow recommendations but read the content of the book before buying it and reading it to my kid. Someone mentionned "The five chinese brothers" as a great read and I ordered this one, among other recommended books. I had to stop reading it to my kid as the book spoke about a brother having his head cut off, being drowned, burned alive and cooked in an oven.
Or you can have books on the top of the charts list which won't appeal to you. I'm not a fan of 'The Wonkey Donkey' for example.

To source English books, I download them on the appstore. (Don't forget to count digital books)
If you want free books, you can use
htpp//appshopper.com
It offers a daily list of free apps and sometimes you'll get free books.
You can also browse through their "200 Best app list" and tick the ones you're interested in but don't want to pay full price for, and when there's a price drop, you'll get an email.

You can make your own rules of course! We constantly re-read books, but that's a pattern which prevents us from trying out new ones. My aim is to read chapter books (which we don't do enough), English books and unknown French books.

Little Reader is a great help for this, as we read stories from the Chinese curriculum, the English one and, best of all, Aesops fables. Seeing the books we just read animated on a screen was a lot of fun for my daughter.

Keep up the good work everyone.

[Latreia]

Hi All !
What a challenge for 2012 ! I just wondered when I should start reading a real book to my 15 m/o girl.
Because she will bite into whatever books i give or show to her, even thick small booklets.
I would like to start her on LR 25 story books but worried that it will all be torn before she can read them.
Any advice ? BTW, she has been on LR, LM & LC for 4 months now, half an hour, twice a day.

Thx alot ! 

[Indidee]

Fantastic idea. I read the rules and am onboard too.  I am aiming for 1000 by her 5th birthday - including books of other languages.  So I am doing English, Hindi, Spanish and will ultimately include Chinese  as well.

Thanks again

[Mandabplus3]

Latreia you need baby bug magazines! Goggle it or search this forum for the link and info. I just ordered 50 of them 2nd hand on eBay. We get the next levels up for older kids but baby bug is baby friendly paper.

1000 books won't be much of a challenge for us. We would be close to that probably 800 a year as a standard. I will join the challenge but I think I may add some rules for myself. What I don't do enough of is get books specifically catered to my sons interest, he has two vocal older sisters! He is an expert on fairys and mermaids!
Also my kids love non fiction, we often borrow them from the library but rearly read them together, so I will add more of that too. I will aim for 300 of Jaykobs choice and 200 non fiction reads as part of my 1000 books. I will even keep the list separate so I am accountable.
As a teacher I highly recommend re reading books especially for children working on learning to read and building vocabulary. Also be sure to add poetry and a few old fashioned story's or fairytales ( check the content first!) in their original writing style for ear and vocabulary development.
I loved wonkey donkey! All those beautiful descriptive words we just don't use anymore! The laughs, the poetry, the music....

[bbqgal]

Can I join? Just want to motivate myself read more often to her! 
Books from story time at the library count too?

[Krista G]

Manda -

Which version of Wonkey Donkey do you like?  I see there are several.

[Kimba15]

An update for January

Miss S 103 books
Miss A  98  Books (She has had more than 100 books read but I don't count repeat readings she loves Click Clack Moo cows that type)

Hope everyone is going well.

[hypatia]

Kimba, great job! even more so considering you have 2 children!

We're doing well too, my daughter is enjoying chapter books. I was surprised to find out that my old Noddy books had such a rich vocabulary.

Are you all reading much on the Ipad?

[Kimba15]

No I don't really use the Ipad at all. I'm kickin' it old school 

I read out loud to the girls while they are playing to get in my 3 books per day. I have a stack of books up in my 'office' storage centre and I borrow about 60 books from the library per month and read those to them as well. I am building up to 'harder texts' I read Thumberlina today and some poetry. Thanks for the Noddy suggestion I will go did those out tomorrow.

I am now in the middle of writing a blog about the importance of reading to children to make them great communicators/writers hope to have it out n the next few days.

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