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How have I missed that one? We love Knuffle Bunny and the sequels to it.

Yay!

Library story times can be pretty overwhelming, with kids crying and parents all wanting to talk at the same time. Checking out the library at other times of the day is a good idea. The children's librarian can give you other book recommendations. Just a quick question though - I have that I Spy Book and just wondered how you knew he was reading versus reciting what he memorized? Also, I think sometimes kids will refuse to show you they can read aloud because they don't realize you can't hear them reading in their heads.

The pigeon was what made me love him in the first place, but I think it depends on the kid. My oldest can see and understand why it is funny but also that the pigeon is not a good role model! Sort of the same deal with Junie B. Jones--I read the whole series to my oldest, realized after "Junie B. Jones is a hair-cut guy" that it was a bad idea to read to the youngest. But...I still risk it and read the pigeon ones to her. He just makes me laugh too hard to keep it from her!

It's simple ... I know for SURE he's reading because he doesn't let me read anything to him. Never did. So there is no way of him having anything like this memorized. In the 3 years of his life I have read him only one or two books. Out of this one he let me read one sentence. He just goes through the books by himself alone. He does not have the patience to listen to anyone reading to him (he does love reading / listening to books on Kindle because he can go as fast or as slow as he wants).

lol! Will check it out!

Wow, that's really amazing that children can learn to read even when no one reads to them.

I know! I still don't fully understand how he did it! When he was 18-20 months, he kept bringing me these plastic letters and wanted me to say their names. Then it got boring so I started telling him the phonetic names too. Add to it his addition to Leapfrog videos and at 2 years 4 months I realized he was phonetically reading words I wrote down for him. A week later he decided goofing around with phonetics is too slow and now he just looks at the words and either reads them clearly or mumbles it as close as he can get it. His biggest problem is speech delay. It's hard to read out lout when you can't talk much! lol He is much more sure of his sounds and the whole speech when he's reading.

This made me laugh yesterday! My husband had actually never seen DS3.1 read, other than occasional word or two or couple home videos I made a while back. Last night the three of us were sitting in DS's room and I pulled out a new puzzle for him. He started putting it together and then went ahead and read the title "Gian Animal Floor Puzzle" and I could see the light in my husband's eyes! It was like "WOW! He really can read!". Of course, 10 minutes later, we were flipping through a new book DS got for his birthday and then he turned to the last page and attempted to read the abstract on the back. He did really good the first couple of sentences, just mumbling or skipping the words he didn't know and then just got lost and gave up at which point my husband says ... "see, he doesn't really know how to read". And I was just thinking to myself "did you actually expect him to read at an ADULT level? Because that's the level the text was written in!" ... he did really good ... considering ...