Podcast #72 | Our Favourite Children's Books - How to Get Your Child Reading

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Many of us will remember some of our first books as a child. But how can we give that same joy of reading to our children? In this podcast episode, Ciara Mannion shares with us titles of great books that your child will find hard to put down. No one book fits all. We explore different books for different children and how knowing your child's temperament is key.  

We explore the power of books to free your child's creativity and how they can also counter children's fears and anxieties. We discuss why reading to your child is important. She shares how values and virtue and characters of a book become real for a child. 

Resources
Recommendations
Postman Pat at Work, Woodland's Animations
All By Myself, Mercer Mayer
Pip and Posy The Bedtime Frog, Axel Scheffler
Nosy Crow, 2013
Paddington Minds the House, Michael Bond
Paddington and the Grand Tour, Michael Bond Tom Crean’s Rabbit A True Story from Scott’s Last Voyage, Meridith Hooper & Bert Kitchen 
Superworm, Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
A Squash and a Squeeze, Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
The Detective Dog, Julia Donaldson & Sara Ogilvie
Gaeilge and Nature Amuigh Faoin Speir, Sadhbh Devlin & Brian Fitzgerald
 All You Need to Know About our World by Age 7, Alice James
The Magnificant Book of Ocean Creatures, Tom Jackson
Nursery Rhymes,  Sally Emerson

Spiritual
Tiny Bears Bible, Sally Lloyd-Jones
Jesus Feeds a Huge Crowd, Lion Hudson
My Day With Jesus, Rev. Thomas J. Donaghy

Classics
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Secret Seven Good Work, Secret Seven by Enid Blyton

By Theme
Saints - Beautiful Bedtime Stories with Mary, Charlotte Grossetête
Easter - The Easter Story, Juliet David
Christmas - A Special Place for Santa: a Legend for Our Time, Jeanne Pieper