Ten Books for a Four-Year-Old Boy

My four-year old has always loved to sit on my lap and have me read to him. My shelves are overflowing with picture books, and he loves to scan their shelves and choose the perfect one for me to read, or to add to his book bag for rest time. Yet I feel like this abundance of books can detract from his connection to any one of them. His sisters had fewer, and seemed to love them more, though their lives also had fewer distractions and more attention from their mother, so who can say what is the true cause.

But ever the plan maker, I decided to choose ten books for him, ten books for the rest of his four-year-old year. I’m not exactly sure how I will make them special, I’m certainly not going to ban the others. I’ll think on it, but simply choosing them makes me feel better.

Ox-Cart Man
Corduroy
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Angus and the Ducks
Tacky the Penguin
Emma’s Pet
The Paperboy
The Day the Goose Got Loose
Harry the Dirty Dog
Tikki Tikki Tembo

Oh, no – I forgot I Heard Said the Bird! Hmmm... I’ve already agonized extensively to get it to this point. I don’t think I can part with any of these – and eleven is just not as lovely as ten. I guess there is always the day when I choose Ten Books for a Five-Year-Old Boy.