There are so many fun Valentine's Day appropriate books out there! These are just a handful of fun ones. I personally love themed books because I love connecting the story with a related craft or baking activity to pull everything together and reinforce communication skills.
The books I picked are books that you can enjoy reading with your child AND build key speech and language skills along the way.
Where is Baby's Valentine by Karen Katz
Where is Baby's Valentine is a great way to introduce making predictions. It's interactive with the flaps and also introduce's thematic vocabulary. This is a good book for introducing questions, since it follows the same format each time. Model shaking your head "No" and see if your baby will copy you!
I Love You, Little Pookie by Sandra Boynton
We bought this to add to our Valentine's themed books this year! Can't go wrong with Sandra Boynton. You can use this book to target lots of opposites and rhyming words with this sweet book. I love the message of this little lullaby love letter from a parent to a child.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose by Lucille Colandro
Toddlers and Preschoolers love the old lady book series! You can get one for each holiday! This book is great for teaching prediction skills (what do you think the old lady will swallow next?) , sequencing and recall: First she swallowed...next she swallowed... What did she just swallow? A book like this is also a fun way to introduce valentine's themed vocabulary.
What color is a Kiss by Rocio Bonilla
Such a sweet concept behind this story! We found this at the library and read it many times. This little girl loves to paint! She's stumped when she wonder's what color to paint a kiss. Great for fostering questioning and reasoning skills: What color do you think a kiss would be? Why would you pick that color? A simple companion activity would be to go color after reading and try to paint the colors for love, hugs and kisses.
Llama Llama I Love You by Anna Dewdney
The Llama Llama books are predictable and great for introducing rhyming and repetition. We use lots of phrases from the Llama Llama books in our everyday life "Zip, Zip Zoom!", that are a fun way to connect back to the story.
Hedgehugs by Steve Wilson
Hedgehugs is a cute little story about two Hedgehogs that want to hug but can't because they are too spikey. It would be a helpful book to introduce the idea of perserverence- they don't give up after many unsuccessful ways to make their hugs more comfortable. This is also a great book to target all the different adjectives, since there are many used throughout the story.
What are your favorite Valentine's books to read in February?
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