The title of this post either makes you smile or feel puzzled – either way, welcome to the musings of one of the sweetest times of my life… reading children’s books! 🙂 Once I had moved away from worrying about whether variables were static, private, public or private and whether methods were overloaded or overridden – there was a special time when we used to visit our local library to find children’s books and read them with great happiness! 🙂 Now, join me as I go to the kingdom of pure and gentle thoughts! 🙂
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!!
As you may have guessed by now, ‘Chicka Chicka Boom Boom’ is the name of a children’s book to be read to very young children. It used to be a classic for children as young as 2 and it was quite a rage then. My then, 2 year old son used to adore it and I did too, as I read it with him(now he is 17 and he might find it blasphemous that I still remember it!! :))
Children’s books have to be written in a special way to keep the little readers glued to it. The book should not have too much of content and have pretty and enticing illustrations. The content should be engaging such that little readers don’t lose their little attention span(this of course, goes for all writings!) and move onto the next activity….
This book does that excellently by teaching the alphabets of the English language in a special and fun way. It goes like this: “A told B and B told C, I will beat you to the top of the coconut tree…” (anybody, care to finish it? :))There are videos on Youtube illustrating this beautiful book too.
More Children’s books:
The other children’s books that I(or rather my kids!! :)) fondly remember reading are:
- “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle
- “Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?” by Eric Carle
- “A House for Hermit crab” by Eric Carle
- “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr.Seuss
- “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr.Seuss
- “Jamberry” by Bruce Degen
- “If you give a mouse a cookie” by Laura Numeroff
- “Goodnight moon” by Margaret Wise Brown
- “Is your Mama a Llama” by Deborah Guarino
The Eric Carle series and the Dr. Seuss series of books for children were always winners. I couldn’t even imagine that such beautiful lines could be created by the move of a pen!! “Chicka Chicka Boom”, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, “A House for Hermit Crab” and “If you give a mouse a cookie” are my all time favorite books. Even though it has been a very,very long time that I read them last – their sweetness and innocence is etched in my memory forever!
As my kids have grown and gravitated away from children’s books into teen series like Roald Dahl and more(for the daughter) and technical books like Java and Information security(for the son), I miss the innocence of the young age…I have also moved away from the blissful, innocent days into the serious horizons of Information security and beyond…
Were/Are your young readers reading these titles too?
Nice Article! Brings back fond memories!