Showering a Mother-to-Be with Children's Books!



Two weeks ago, I posted a few of the pictures that I took at my daughter’s baby shower. It was a wonderful event! Everyone who attended commented on the way I had decorated the room…with board books, picture books, poetry books, and alphabet blocks.




I still have plenty more books to give to my daughter and my son-in-law. But they won’t be the only ones reading to my grandchild! I’ve volunteered to take care of my grandchild three days a week when my daughter is back at work after her maternity leave. I plan to read hundreds of my favorite books to my first grandchild. I can’t wait because reading aloud to young children is one of the things that I love to do most. It’s something that I’ve really missed since I retired from my school library position in 2004.

Here is a poem that I wrote many years ago

about the joy of sharing books

with my Sara when she was a little girl:

A BOOK AND A CHAIR

A book and chair

Are nice to share

When the edges of day

Are melting away

Into the night.

A book and a chair

Are nice to share—

Touching and talking,

Reading and rocking

Into the night.

BTW, The Horn Book has an excellent article titled What Makes a Great Baby Shower Book? by Viki Ash and Betty Carter. You can read it here.

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At Wild Rose Reader, I have an original memoir poem titled Rain Barrel.

Anastasia Suen has the Poetry Friday Roundup at Picture Book of the Day.