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I’m so excited for this week’s Fiction Friday, and if you have a preschooler at home, you’ll be excited too!  Mo Willems has written another brilliant book titled, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?  Like its predecessors in the pigeon series, this story finds the pigeon asking for yet another thing (this time it’s a cookie), and he grows angry when the duckling gets a cookie instead.  The pigeon then goes into a tantrum about how he has asked for so many things (to drive the bus, hot dog parties, and his own personal iceberg to name a few), but has never received any of them.  The pigeon conti

Did you know that it’s never too early to promote early literacy?  Babies may be a few years away from reading on their own, but it is still important for them to learn about books and reading.  Let your babies play with board books.  Teach them how to hold a book, and read to them as often as you can.  Rhymes and songs are also very important for this age group because it slows language down so that the babies can hear the individual sounds in words.  So be sure to sing some of your favorite songs to your babies and read nursery rhymes too!

As I’ve stated before, rhymes are immensely important when it comes to young children learning how to read.  When they know that the word ‘cat’ rhymes with ‘hat’ and ‘bat,’ then they’re more likely to recognize those words in print.  So this week’s ABC Ready is, once again, about practicing rhymes.  Recite your favorite nursery rhymes with your child.  Start a rhyme and see if your child can finish it.  Ask your child to think of words that rhyme with cat, hug, bed, etc.  And, at the end of the day, settle down with a picture book that’s told in rhyme.  Here’s a list of rhyming picture books that we have at the library.