Episode 59 Kim and Mary talk about two of their favorite interactive books, All Better, a beautifully illustrated book that cleverly incorporates colorful bandaids and cute animals to teach children about colors, body parts, and empathy and Let's Find Momo, a captivating search-and-find book with real-life images. We share our insights on how these books can be used to engage with your child on different developmental levels and how they can turn reading time into a fun, educational experience.
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Episode 59 Kim and Mary talk about two of their favorite interactive books, All Better, a beautifully illustrated book that cleverly incorporates colorful bandaids and cute animals to teach children about colors, body parts, and empathy and Let's Find Momo, a captivating search-and-find book with real-life images. We share our insights on how these books can be used to engage with your child on different developmental levels and how they can turn reading time into a fun, educational experience.
Check out more of our Friday Favorite episodes and how we use toys, games and books in play and language development, and find more resources and info on our website The Speech Source. You can also follow us on Instagram @thespeechsource.
Also, if you haven't done so already, follow our podcast! You will be the first to know when new episodes release. We would also love for you to leave a review and rate our show. The Speech Source appreciates your feedback and support! Follow here!
Welcome to Friday Favorites. This is the time of our show where Kim and I bring one of our absolute favorite items of a certain category. So we've talked about puzzles, art supplies, toys. Today is all about books and we find the books are really hard to find really quality books that are worth the price tag and that is worth the space that you're going to put it in your home and your kids are going to enjoy it. It's going to be a great experience. So we've brought two of our favorites today that we know are going to be hits with your family.
Speaker 2:
Right. So I was telling you earlier. I was at Barnes Noble this weekend with my own kids and I feel like I know books, I know how to pick a good book, but there are so many books in the kids section and I got overwhelmed and just looking at all the different ones, a lot of them, have, you know, a little puppets or toys or animals that go with it, which I think is great because you can add to it.
Speaker 2:
But I myself got overwhelmed. So I love a book that I know how it's used with kids or it's been recommended to me, and so I brought one of my favorites today. It's called All Better. My sister introduced me to this book. I just did it yesterday with a kid.
Speaker 2:
But what it normally looks like is all of these. There's a little bandaid that goes on the same color. So right there, you can take them all off and match colors. Let me find a couple more. So right now, you're just matching colors and each bandaid has a little animal on it. There's a dog, a monkey, a sheep here's all the animals right here.
Speaker 2:
So every page you go through and it talks about how one of the animals got hurt, and it has the same little phrase at the end. You kiss it, put a bandaid on it all better, and I always have mine. Go pat, pat, pat on top of the bandaid, just to work on that word. But what you do is you see what happens to the animal, oh, and you go back here and so we're going to get the puppy bandaid because you're matching animal to animal. So here you matched colors. Now you get to match the animal and you find out, oh, it's on his hand. And every single animal has a different body part where they got hurt. So you can work on body parts there. You can put it on, you can kiss it if you want to put a bandaid on it. And pat, pat, pat.
Speaker 2:
And a lot of times the way that I do it by level is if we're needing to go quick, we'll just turn the page and oh, he hurt his hand. We don't even have to go through the whole process of how it happened. Oh, he hurt his hand, put the bandaid on and go through there. So each one you know the monkey fell and he bumped his head. So we can talk about his head. And then you find your monkey bandaid and then you're going to put it on his head. So there's another word you're working on, on you can take him off.
Speaker 2:
And then for your older kids you can go through and do it page by page or even at the end how did the puppy get hurt, how did the monkey get hurt? And have them retell that story back to you. So answering some of those WH questions, recall, it's a great book that you can just take all the band aids off and let the kids put the band aids on. That's fun too If they're not really even at the reading level the band aid on just matching the animals but as they get bigger you can work on what happened, how it happened, and you're making them all better. So it's really fun. It's a cute one, and here's the elephant. He stepped on his own trunk and so then you put it on there, so the kids love it. I think the most difficult thing is keeping track of the band-aids, which has been the hardest part in our bills.
Speaker 2:
And so at the end of the book I really try to go back and put them all on the front page and it's just one that I try to keep track of a little bit more. So the band-aids stay together, because it's not as fun when you have missing band-aids. So it's cute it is one of my favorite books.
Speaker 1:
We actually have that book.
Speaker 1:
Yes, we do, because it's a great one, and you know I find that a lot of families, when their child isn't communicating a lot, one of the number one goals that they will have is I wish they could tell me when they're hurt. I wish they could tell me when they're feeling bad. And I find that, going through books like this playing doctor with a doctor kid, you know, if we want our goal to be that they can come and tell us that they're hurt and where is hurting, then we need to understand the vocabulary of that, like uh-oh, kiss it, you know pat it, and then also understand body parts, right. So if they can know that vocabulary, then they're going to be way better set up to be able to tell you like oh, my tummy hurts. And the best way to teach it is through fun, right?
Speaker 2:
And understanding those routines. So the next time they get hurt, you can do the same routine. That's going to hopefully help them move through it a little bit better. Uh-oh, I'm going to kiss it, I'm going to rub it. You know that same routine that they're used to and they know and they've learned when they're not hurt and then when they're not upset.
Speaker 2:
we'll come back to them in that moment and hopefully you can talk through it and it'll help them know okay we're going to put a bandaid on it and it's going to be all better, because they've learned about it from a book when they were in the state of mind where they could understand it and listen. And, mary, what did you bring today?
Speaker 1:
Okay. So today I brought this book. It's called let's Find Momo and, as you know if you've been a listener for a while, kim and I really love books that have beautiful pictures and illustrations and a step that is easier for kids as they're learning as if it's real pictures. So if you find that maybe a child isn't quite interested in illustrations and books yet, you want to go towards some books that have real pictures in it. This book is all about the dog Momo and as speech pathologist, let me tell you that's a good dog name Spot Clifford, way too difficult for early learners. So Momo is great for kids gosh as early as like 12 to 18 month range.
Speaker 1:
You know it's like a great one.
Speaker 2:
So changing that vowel from mama. Yes, momo.
Speaker 1:
Yes, and that oh vowel is trickier. So you're right, kind of chaining into that oh, momo is a good one, and if they call it mama, that's okay, we'll get there. Let's find Momo. This is a search and find type book and so, okay, look at this camera, it's really cool, oh, fun, that's a real. Yes, it's real pictures and it shows exactly what you're going to find and it's labeled. So it's a real picture and you're saying hot dog Momo, and then it has four things and you're going to find that in this scene. Now this is obviously a more graduated search and find busy. This is the level of more the 12 to 18 month range and then you can find it for them and say Momo, look, I found Momo. So you can show them and some aren't quite as busy like something like this very, very kind of empty scene, and then you're finding them. Now, if you are with like a two to three year old or older, then you're working on those awesome location phrases.
Speaker 2:
That's not just thinking.
Speaker 1:
Yeah is that you know a lot of those early learners. They have the nouns down, they've got this huge inventory of nouns but then we're looking at it and going, wait, we don't say in or under or between great way to practice in the box or where is the glove that's on the chair. And then you can incorporate new vocabulary like that, like shelf, that they might not have yet. So this is a really really pretty book, goes through a lot of different scenes and again Momo is the constant and all of them. So if you want to just go through first and all you're doing is finding Momo, that's a great way to do like a first run through the book and it's fast and easy. And then, as they get more engaged in it, you can label this is such a great picture to say this is a sock, sock. You know it's just yeah, and it's got this nice plain background. Then you can find all the different ones in the book and they're seeing that book. That's a really good one.
Speaker 1:
It's a really great one and it does it just has some good vocabulary. Kim, we've always talked to you about speech sounds. I mean this is a great one too, that if you're working on L's or R's S's, you can incorporate those sounds and then you're just doing a quick warm up, but you're also working on speech and language while you're doing your plays, that we can incorporate all these sounds and just start everyday things we would do already.
Speaker 2:
So let's find Momo is a great one that's cute and I love books that. When kids are little they can just enjoy looking at those bright pictures. When they are real life pictures, like in that book Kids really enjoy just looking through at the pictures and when they're older they can try to do that search and find themselves. They can look on the left side, see if they can find it on the right. So it's a great book for kids to stay engaged with with themselves for a while. So that's a really cute one.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I like it Well. Thanks so much for listening. We hope you enjoyed Friday Favourites and we will see you here next time. Good,