Highly Recommended Books For First Time Readers

Introduction

Reading is one of the best habits to strengthen our minds. Physical book reading is always better than reading a digital book. The smell of a new book is nostalgic for many of us. Being a book worm myself, I love to collect books of my personal choice. The collection has already become a small library at my home and the same is being enjoyed by my kids now.

Inculcating the habit of reading books is much needed for today's generation rather than only training them to use gadgets and technological equipment. It helps in developing cognitive skills and imaginative skills.

There are different genres of books like fantasy, horror, adventure, fiction, classic stories, fablore, mystery, comics, action, etc.

Below are 8 books suggested for first time readers. These are simple texted books with colorful illustrations to attract young readers and make reading simple.

1) Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?

Authors – Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle

This book is a great starter for young readers. It has colorful pictures, rhymes and repetition tasks in question- and- answer format which serves as an interactive book and encourages reading habit in young buds.

2) The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Author – Eric Carle

This story is an interactive tale of a very hungry small caterpillar who eats too many sweets. Little readers will enjoy poking their fingers in the colorful holes created by the caterpillar as he munches his way through the story.

3) Dear Zoo

Author – Rod Campbell

This lift the flaps book of Rod Campbell, makes you host favourite zoo animals and sturdy card flaps to lift on every page. Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with toddlers and parents alike since its first publication in 1982. With bright, bold artwork, and a repeating text, Dear Zoo is a must for every child's bookshelf and the thick card pages, chunky cased cover, and sturdy flaps make it perfect and attractive for readers to read.

4) Where is Spot?

Author – Eric Hill

This classic book has been in market for more than three decades. Children have been finding Spot, the dog in this book. There are also other animals hiding under the flaps of this book and children find it interesting to lift the flap and find the animals under them. This is a must-read book for any toddler.

5) The Gruffalo?

Author – Julia Donaldson

This book is an award-winning story written by the author Julia Donaldson. This rhyming story of a mouse and a monster has found its way into the hearts of millions of kids by its stunning storyline and the artwork done by Axel Scheffler. There are many more books with various stories in the same Gruffalo series which keeps the budding readers busy.

6) Guess How Much I Love You

Author – Sam McBratney

This best seller book has sold over more than 50 million copies worldwide. This book explains the story of the big and small hare expressing their love for each other. It melts our hearts when we read the love between these two hares. It teaches kids the ways to give unconditional love to the people around us. Worth reading this book to the kid to make them understand about love.

7) Where is Baby’s Belly Button?

Author – Karen Katz

This is an interesting lift the flap interactive book. This book helps the babies to find and know about their own body parts. Parents can make the reading of this book more interesting by asking them the questions about body parts which are provided in the book.

8) That’s Not My ----------- (Thing) Series by Usborne

Author – Fiona Watt

The books in this series are colourful bright with Touch and Feel texture for kids to know the various textures of objects in their daily life. The text is very simple for the babies to understand. These are soft padded board books which will long last even if the babies try to rough use them.

Conclusion

Do buy simple and easy text books for kids to read and build the habit of reading. Reading is a good hobby too. So encourage kids to read books according to their choices and likings.

Do comment if there are any books that you would like to add to this suggestion list. It would be helpful for other readers too.