Clicky Poll - Books for your little(s)?

[graceinca]

[vitafelix]

We have a mix, but B can't be trusted not to rip pages. He still points and says uh oh to the poor Katz boy with no ear flaps in his hat. I don't know how many times I've glued them back in...

[cl8badb]

A mix. I usually dont let him handle the non board books bc he bends the pages when he tries to turn them but hes gotten his hands on them a few times and theyve (sort of) survived.
Heck hes ruined his board books! Bending flaps or trying to eat them when he was younger.

[heelibrarian]

vitafelix I don't know how that book survived DS because those ear flaps were the first casualties here too! I really have to watch her, she's been known to destroy board books. I swear, it looks like they could film Book Hoarders here.

[ordinaryme]

We have a mix but I recently put up all the books with paper pages, she has taken a special interest in ripping them. I will still read them to her but she can't have them unsupervised.

[kames12]

We have a mix. He's pretty good with not ripping the pages. He does try to eat them some times

[musicalsilver]

I voted for rippy mcripperson.

We have a mix, but only the board books are out where he can reach them. The non-board books are up out of reach for closely supervised use only.

[bcandlm]

Same as a lot of people have said--we have a mix of both, but ever since he started grabbing books, we almost always do board books because he would just rip the pages of the other kind.

When he was a tiny baby, I used to read him non-board books all the time.

[huckleberry08]

We have a mix but only give him board books. He has still managed to destroy a couple of those by bending them backward. He is getting better about tearing flaps, at least. Our Tails book is toast.

[cricket]

We have a mix. He doesn't rip intentionally, but does sometimes get a little too excited about turning the pages. I just tape them up and give them back. I have a couple that I keep away from him - ones that I feel like would be tougher to replace - but mostly I figure his books are meant to be loved. Brown Bear might be more tape than paper at this point.

[sctiger]

We have a mix but mostly stick to board books because she will rip or bend the pages.

[stargazer763]

We have a mix, but he prefers the short wording on board books. We're getting into some of the Golden Books, but I have to summarize them.
"So, Thomas did something selfish. AGAIN."

[majwv8]

Also a mix. But not board books are in a higher shelf she can't reach and she only gets them when we're reading together. She gets her flap books to read alone, because so far she has been trusted to not rip them off.

[lioness13]

She has access to both and hasn't harmed any paper books yet thankfully.

[peachey]

Feb 4, 2015 20:21:29 GMT -5 musicalsilver said:

I voted for rippy mcripperson.

We have a mix, but only the board books are out where he can reach them. The non-board books are up out of reach for closely supervised use only.

This!

[sympkin]

Feb 4, 2015 20:31:12 GMT -5 cricket said:

We have a mix. He doesn't rip intentionally, but does sometimes get a little too excited about turning the pages. I just tape them up and give them back. I have a couple that I keep away from him - ones that I feel like would be tougher to replace - but mostly I figure his books are meant to be loved. Brown Bear might be more tape than paper at this point.

Same.

Bought some really good tape and I repair as we go. We've only lost one, which actually was a board book that she decided really wanted to go for a swim in the dog's water.

The only ones we've kept aside are some signed novels that were made out to her, which is probably a little above her skill level right now anyways .

[daffy2k]

Feb 4, 2015 20:14:07 GMT -5 cl8badb said:

A mix. I usually dont let him handle the non board books bc he bends the pages when he tries to turn them but hes gotten his hands on them a few times and theyve (sort of) survived.
Heck hes ruined his board books! Bending flaps or trying to eat them when he was younger.

Pretty much this.  Non board books are reserved for reading together right now.  The shelf in the play room only has board books on it.  Non board books usually stay upstairs in her bedroom.

[subliminalrabbit]

Mix. He's pulled apart some of the pop-ups and flaps in those kinds of books from being too enthusiastic with them, but I'm not being super precious. I explain that we need to respect books and he doesn't do it often. He very, very rarely tears just plain paper books -- and it's generally by mistake (again, enthusiasm).

[dmlk413]

DD has all if her board books downstairs and has easy access to them. All I her regular books are in her room and she can only 'read' them with adult supervision. I don't want her to ruin them; she's getting better about not ripping but I still don't fully trust her.

[ciahanna]

The few non board books we have are in another room. I've really got to be better about reading to her. I love to read so it shouldn't be this hard. My mom reads to her every time we're there so at least someone is worried about her literacy!

[doodletwins]

We have my classroom library that I bought while teaching first grade. I don't let them look at paper books alone usually, but considering most are from yard sales, I won't be too sad if a few don't survive. My kids aren't any worse than the first graders were.

[stilettoleto]

Mix here, but mostly board books. Our current favorite is Tails...there is so much to turn and feel lots of learning opportunities with different animals. Now, to make sure it stays in as little pieces as possible... I've already had to put the fox's tail back on :/

[skk]

We have a mix here too. Most of the rips are just from over excitement/enthusiasm so we talk about being careful with books, but I also don't expect any of them to last forever.

[lingeringwithcoffee]

I put a mix. She has a bookshelf in her room, and I have moved the non-board books to a higher shelf because she tends to rip them out of excitement/enthusiasm. She is only upset that she can't read her favorite book (Where the Wild Things Are) unsupervised.

[momofcatan]

Mostly board books. I've been letting her flip through non-board books with supervision and she is fairly gentle.

[michelin82]

We have a mix. DS1 is usually the culprit when it comes to ripping books - not DS2. Thankfully DS1 has gotten better about it, so I think we're in the clear for having our books ripped!

[ordinaryme]

I lied. No book is safe in our home...

[daffy2k]

Feb 5, 2015 0:43:03 GMT -5 doodletwins said:

We have my classroom library that I bought while teaching first grade. I don't let them look at paper books alone usually, but considering most are from yard sales, I won't be too sad if a few don't survive. My kids aren't any worse than the first graders were.

Every time I see one of you teachers post on here about buying supplies for your classroom my mind is completely blown.  Stocking your classroom with supplies and books should not be coming out of your own pocket.  That would never fly around here.

[melohdy]

We've got a ripper. She is pretty good when we're reading together but we always leave a book with her after we leave the room for the night and she reads until she falls asleep. If we give her a book with flaps (on accident), the flaps are doomed.

[melohdy]

ordinaryme

We have that one. It was doomed. Poor flaps.