Originally Posted by Artsmartmom
Dude -- you are so right -- blink and you'll miss it for sure! Plus, she is NOT a discriminating reader at all -- I remember a friend saying her child would say that is a baby book! She really could not care less -- if it has words she'll read it, happily. She's over there reading a busy bumble bee book right now. smile But, I've got a list from lexile.com and am going to the library today for some more appropriate books.:)

When we first started going to the public library her FAVORITE thing was sitting in the window reading the encyclopedia -- this was like 2 years ago. I don't know what appealed to her, exactly, but it was like it was finally something with enough info for her, ya know!? Ha!

Yeah, DD seems just as happy reading her Berenstain Bears collection she's read 1000x over the last three years as she is with her newest chapter book. We recently went through her whole library to reorganize things and make some space, and while I had no problem with her hanging onto the Bears and Doctor Seuss-like material, when she tried to rescue a collection that was literally baby books, I drew a line.

Throughout her progress in reading, it has always seemed like she settles into a comfort zone for a while, then someone encourages her to stretch beyond that zone for just a bit, she proves to herself she can do it, and BOOM! She's off.