Bedtime reading

April 1, 2009


Bedtimes are later these days, with the boys picking out different books every night - though it’s D who chooses, and M kind of gurgles along happily. Goodnight Moon is one of the favourites. Then there’s Tiger on a Tree; one of the Clifford books about the dogs making leaf piles. A recent favourite is a Children’s Book Trust book of illustrations by Badri Narayan. And all kinds of other books.

For D, reading is practically the same as singing. “Please, Amma, sing this book…”

Bedtime music is mostly Rahman or one of the Worldspace channels. M likes the Dill 6 soundtrack, especially the Genda Phool song.

On the New Yorker’s books blog, Ligaya Mishan has a post about bedtime reading here.

4 Comments »

The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2009/04/01/bedtime-reading/trackback/

  1. Dear Uma,

    Did you try “the very hungry caterpillar” by Eric Carle? Not bedtime though, but has helped me feed my son.

    During the bed time it is ” How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? ”

    Happy singing uh reading.

    With regards
    Narasimhan

    Comment by Narasimhan Srinivasan — April 2, 2009 @ 9:17 pm

  2. Long time no visit your blog. But may I suggest “The Gruffalo” by Julia Donaldson ( i think) and also “The Whale and the Snail” by the same author. Fab to read out loud. And of course, all the Dr Seuss books.

    Comment by Kavitha — April 12, 2009 @ 5:57 pm

  3. hi, wrote once and lost comment… stopped by after long, and was thrilled to see a post on my favourite topic - children’s picture books… i wrote an article on some of the unmissables - it’s here at http://aniamit.blogspot.com/2009/01/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html (if you do want to take a look use firefox, as there’s some bug with IE)…
    lucky you to have two babies - one to gurgle with and one to read to! :)

    Comment by anita — May 11, 2009 @ 8:35 am

  4. hi, wrote once and lost comment… stopped by after long, and was thrilled to see a post on my favourite topic - children’s picture books… i wrote an article on some of the unmissables - it’s here at http://aniamit.blogspot.com/2009/01/normal-0-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html (if you do want to take a look use firefox, as there’s some bug with IE)…
    lucky you to have two babies - one to gurgle with and one to read to! :)

    Comment by anita — May 11, 2009 @ 8:36 am

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>



Anti-spam measure: please retype the above text into the box provided.