Today’s question is a shorter one, so I may answer two today.

“Does Leah have a favorite book?”

Leah’s favorite book changes all the time, because she is a kid! We read to her every night as part of her bedtime routine, and have been doing so for years. Technically we started before she was born, when I read to her so she would hear my voice. 😹 When she was in the NICU, we read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” to her – they were running a program encouraging parents to read to their preemies, and to record themselves so the nurses could play it back when parents weren’t there (like overnight) if the babies needed to be calmed.

Leah is a big fan of story time. For a long time, her favorite book was “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” That’s when she was maybe 2 years old. She would make us read it five or six times in a row. Then it shifted to “Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?” and she surprised us both by telling us what was coming on the next page the whole way through the book. She also LOVED the baby books by Leslie Patricelli, and would probably still read them if we brought them out. She still likes “The Runaway Bunny” and “Goodnight Moon,” although the latter is mostly outgrown. “The Cat in the Hat” is still going strong.

At age five, she still likes her simple little board books like “Gossie and Gertie” and the previously mentioned titles, but she also enjoys “Little Bear,” Daniel Tiger stories, Elephant and Piggy books, “The Family Book” by Todd Parr, and all sorts of books we have found for her.

For non-book story time, Leah enjoys recitations of her birth story, “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.”