Can You?

Can You Peck Like a Hen?
-by Jez Alborough

Can You Jump Like a Kangaroo?
-by Jez Alborough

These fun Alborough titles invite your child to move like various animals and have the added bonus of being pop-up books. What's not to like? Have fun mimicking the animals over and over again.

Pair these books with a trip to the zoo. You could snap some digital photos of the animals and place them alongside photos of your child impersonating the animals to make your own animal action book.

Alborough, Jez. Can You Peck Like a Hen?. Cambridge MA: Candlewick Press, 1996.

Alborough, Jez. Can You Jump Like a Kangaroo?. Cambridge MA: Candlewick Press, 1996.

From Head to Toe

From Head to Toe

-by Eric Carle

On each page of this book you'll find a different animal performing a different action. Each page also features a child performing the same action. Children reading along will want to hop right up and act like gorillas, flamingos, and more. From Head to Toe is a great book for building awareness/naming different body parts, as well as learning animals.

Carle, Eric (1999). From head to toe, Board book edition. New York, NY: HarperFestival.

Get a copy by clicking here. Or visit your local bookstore or library.

June: Books You Can't Sit Still For

This month let's talk about books that help children get moving.

What books do you have that you never read at bedtime because your little one won't be calm when you're finished?

Do you know any books that help your child learn as she moves?

Leave suggestions in the comments and don't forget to tell how you like to use the book.