孩子近來愛看的書

A-Mum

Quote "點入紙架？＂

有張 form 架，問佢攞啦，一本書要填一張
填基本資料如書名、作者名、本書有咩好，ISBN number is optional

A-Mum

Thanks BoBo Mum!

A-Mum

等唔切書展，今日去咗呢到掃書：

http://www.stanfordhouse.com.hk/news.php?action=

主要賣 levelled readers and fact books, 平嘅有 十蚊一本，一百蚊四本，一百蚊五本等，都有少量繪本同 fiction.

A-Mum

三歲半，我地應該係伴讀緊 picture books 同 D stage 1 嘅簡單故事。Magic Tree House 留番佢大啲自己睇好喎，你見好多媽媽都成日頭痕搵咩書嚟餵啲書蟲。同埋，如果你伴讀嘅精彩過佢自己讀嘅，佢邊有動力去自己讀？

同意幾多歲讀到唔重要，只要方向正確，最終都係會讀到。學 Phonics 加大量閱讀啦，有用㗎！

A-Mum

Mixed, 即係有好嘅語境，咁應該遲早實掂？
鬼仔係六歲先要認字？依家先三歲半，唔駛急喎

A-Mum

最近淘了套 Usborne 未出的 chapter books, 好似 Beast Quest 的；故事背景在古埃及，都係打怪獸⋯ 稍為厚啲，仲平好多！

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=16261195602

Usborne's original website:
http://www.usborne.com/catalogue ... at=1&series=889

仲買咗呢兩本，都幾好：
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=14933133392

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=16790284605

A-Mum

Hi Laputa!

Thr Quests books are quite boyish, nothing to do with myths. A punch here, a stab there and monsters after monters. Just a look at the cover scares my girl away! ;p
Has your girl read How to Train Your Dragon? I think they are quite nice, leaves the reader something to think about afterwards.  Percy Jackson... seems so far away for us... luckily I have the Kindle version, pages won't be falling off with the long wait!

A-Mum

Hi experienced parents!

I ordered from bookdepository on 2 Aug, today the status is still "processing". The book page said "usually dispatched within 48 hours" so it should not be because the book is unavailable.

Is this normal? Last time I ordered, the status was updated to "shipped on xxx" 3 days later. Do they sometimes forget to update the status? or do I need to remind them?

A-Mum

Thanks Laputa! Just checked again and it's shipped finally!
It's the 9th book of "How to train your dragon", this version comes with collector cards. Trying to attract my boy, he's now collecting the Beast Quest cards!

A-Mum

Percy Jackson and the Olympians 有5本
Heroes of Olympus 暫時出咗兩本，10 月 2 號會出第三本，我都等緊！
同一個作者有套 The Kane Chronicles 都好睇架，講 ancient Egyptian gods

A-Mum

我睇 Kindle 版嘛，所以會吼住一出就買！
屋企無位喇，兩個細路又成日唔捨得啲舊書，我依家盡量捉埋佢地睇 Kindle 版，唔駛煩！

A-Mum

Hi Laputa!
Mine was called Kindle 3 Wi-Fi, costed ~$1200 including postage. I'm afraid it's no longer available. The nearest one is now called Kindle Keyboard but comes with 3G + Wi-Fi support.

There are lighter and cheaper versions now. The Kindle one is lightest and cheapest but has no audio and has only 2G memory. My experience is that if you put ~100 books on the kindle, it takes a loooooooger time to load. I'm not sure if 2G means it will become slow with 50 books or not. Or if you would like to use the text-to-speech function or listen to audio books then you may also not want this one.

Having said that, if one day, my kids are fighting over our kindle, I guess I will buy the "Kindle". Weight is my biggest concern!

Chinese books is not a problem! I'm asking my kids to read Eng/Chi books alternately. As a role model, I am doing that too, and on Kindle! You can get a complete set of 金庸 from 好讀 website. Needs to do some conversion on the PC but they are free! It certainly feels good to have a set of 金庸 + Percy Jackson + Harry Potter + some Beast Quests + My Weird School + Candy Fairies ... in your bag, on the beach & in Singapore!

As for prices, are you a big supporter of royalty?

http://haodoo.net/

A-Mum

Hi wootaitai!

How about phonics readers? These are usually shorter. I remember you want series of books that can be booked from the library?

http://webcat.hkpl.gov.hk/lib/item?id=chamo:2806017&theme=WEB
http://webcat.hkpl.gov.hk/lib/item?id=chamo:2806008&theme=WEB
http://webcat.hkpl.gov.hk/search ... gram.&theme=WEB
http://webcat.hkpl.gov.hk/search ... aders&theme=WEB
http://webcat.hkpl.gov.hk/search ... nics.&theme=WEB

and of course there are the ORT phonics readers!

and how about asking your home helper to choose herself and borrow 18 picture books for your girl every week? I guess your girl will be interested in at least a few of these by random books?

Has your girl read Usborne's First Experiences? Fairy Tales? Farmyard Tales? they are really sweet. I remember seeing them in library in separate thin books but you may also want to own a collection:

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm? ... &id=14930571250

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=14888782768&

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=19128404375&

My girl says she will keep these forever and ever!

A-Mum

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Hi! the Greek Myths series by Lucy Coats come in 12 books or one big book:

https://webcat.hkpl.gov.hk/search/query?match_1=PHRASE&field_1=tse&term_1=Greek+beasts+and+heroes+%3B&pageNumber=1&theme=WEB_K

http://www.bookdepository.com/Atticus-Storytellers-100-Greek-Myths-Lucy-Coats/9781842552797?selectCurrency=USD

A-Mum

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How about some silly stories?

My girl is reading:
My Weird School, My Weird School Daze, My Weirder School
Pigs in Planes

They are funny and she keeps giggling!

She also didn't like Geronimo before but Pearl is now showing the Geronimo cartoons at 4:30pm. After watching one episode, she fell in love with the stories!

A-Mum

“Bo Bo-mum  Dan Gutman's my weird school series used to be my gal's favourite !  ”

Hi BoBo-mum! 是小師姐媽媽嗎？多多指教呀！

A-Mum

阿仔竟然睇緊 Harry Potter!
佢問我點解一本比一本厚，我話作者想嚇走啲細膽嘅人，因為故事會越嚟越恐怖⋯
佢竟然話：我唔怕厚喎，睇 Kindle 唔知有幾厚嘛！
依家去到 book 3, 前路漫漫！

A-Mum

Hi Laputa! 咁啱？！
佢尋日撞見個朋友，朋友見佢手上本書，就叫 Expelliarmus！阿仔仲只係識 Lumos! 輸咗成條街，番到屋企即刻咩都唔做，努力刨書
有伴睇係開心啲，不過我都唔期望佢睇得晒，原先估佢去到 bk 2 咋。

我唸緊好無買枝發光 Harry Potter wand 俾佢中秋玩。你個囡鍾意 Hermione 定 Ginny 呀？如果買，我想入定多支俾阿妹。不過又驚估錯。

A-Mum

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我話睇晒套書至俾睇電影呀！
因為阿哥睇，阿妹又實睇，但我又怕佢會驚到書都唔敢睇；始終睇戲會真過睇書，分分鐘發埋惡夢。

不過開咗學阿妹都未慣，好忙，又慢！無乜時間睇書，希望適應咗會好啲。

A-Mum

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我係淘寶見到有呀，不過未揀定舖頭。阿仔竟然想要 Dumbledore 嗰支⋯ 成個阿伯咁款⋯你個女仲鍾唔鍾意貼紙？我以前儲落咗本好厚嘅 Lego Harry Potter ultimate sticker book, 幾靚架，有興趣 search 埋啦，應該仲有。