Big Boy Book

Joseph has always liked books. But in the last little while, he's noticed that his books are different than other books; his books have sturdy cardboard pages, whereas other books have paper pages, perfect for rapidly turning and flipping.

Since making this discovery, Joseph has become determined to get his hands on non-board books whenever the opportunity arises.

He does have one "regular" book of his own with paper pages and lots of pictures of animals, and this has become his favorite of late.


It's fun to watch him turn the over-sized pages and point out the things that catch his eye.

With his picture books, we try to ask him where various objects are, but he's not really into that. Sometimes he does point at the things we name, but most of the time he just ignores us and turns to another page. Joseph does, however, like to point at things and have us name them, so we're learning a lot of animal names.


I like this series of pictures, because it shows how he handles books and how excited he gets when he reads his big-kid book.





I was going to mention that so far he has managed to avoid ripping any pages, but right after I took these pictures he tried to stand up while holding on to the book and ended up tearing a page. I'm guessing that it's just the first of many torn pages.