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I highly recommend parents share "Pensive Penelope Thinks About Words" with their youngsters.
Penny goes from pre-verbal to loquacious in just a matter of hours! Which is exactly how it feels when a child begins to speak! One minute she is making sounds, the next minute she is talking your head off! Penelope is “pensive” as she ponders how to get her new words out into the world and heard!
Filled with delightful rhyme and rhythm, this book helps expose the youngest readers to the magic of language, and encourages older readers to think about new words with Penelope!
When you're a parent, there're many milestones you can't wait for your child to reach: the first laugh, rolling over, the first step, feeding oneself, and the first word, to name a few. Each moment is filled with laughter, clapping, and shouts of glee from parents (sometimes from the child, too).
When my children were (about) nine months old, they spoke their first word (Ma). Every day, their vocabulary was building and being shared with us, their parents. We were excited to wake up and see what our babies would say next. The toddler stage was connecting words, and then things got more interesting. This is when real conversations start to happen with our children. I loved this time.
When kids start verbalizing more, they mimic sounds and words they hear. If you ever wonder if your child understands what you're saying, this is the time when they parrot back your words.
Pensive Penelope Thinks About Words by Pat Blankenship showcases all the words and thoughts that zip around a child's brain and the excitement it brings to them and those around them when they finally can speak.
Pensive Penelope Thinks About Words captured the realism of how tiring talking can be for a child and those listening to their chatter. I vividly recall when my kids learned to say, "Why?" Man, did they use that word often! "No" was also a favorite of theirs.
Amazon recommends Pensive Penelope Thinks About Words by Pat Blankenship for birth to eight-year-olds. I think babies and toddlers will like the illustrations by Linden Eller. They were super cute!
Preschoolers should be able to understand the happenings in the story, and school-age kids should be able to read most, if not all, the words with little to no assistance.
I highly recommend parents share this book with their youngsters.
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Synopsis
Penny goes from pre-verbal to loquacious in just a matter of hours! Which is exactly how it feels when a child begins to speak! One minute she is making sounds, the next minute she is talking your head off! Penelope is “pensive” as she ponders how to get her new words out into the world and heard!
Filled with delightful rhyme and rhythm, this book helps expose the youngest readers to the magic of language, and encourages older readers to think about new words with Penelope!
About the author
I am Leo, Gryffindor, first born, comfortable-casual clothes lover and a huge fan of kids. I am a yogi, a mother, a grandmother and a reader of newspapers and novels. I am an English major, a teacher, a retired lawyer and a writer. view profile
Published on December 15, 2021
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Genre: Picture Books
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