5 Recommended Books for Your Preschooler’s Development

The preschool stage is an exciting time for you to introduce concepts, skills, and experiences that are considered important in the later years of schooling. Check out these five recommended books to help make learning a fun and creative experience:

1. Math Play! (Williamson Little Hands Series) by Diane McGowan and Mark Schrooten
It is essential to learn mathematical skills, as well as appreciate mathematical concepts at this stage of your child’s development. This book will help you understand how the concept of play develops your child’s math readiness. It provides a wide range of activities that you and your child are sure to enjoy and remember. Moreover, most of the necessary mathematical skills such as counting, numeracy, measurement, and recognition of shapes and patterns are covered in this book. You may follow the link in order to view some of its pages.

2. Science Play! (Williamson Little Hands Series) by Jill Frankel Hauser and Michael P. Kline
Science has often been considered as an important subject in most schools in our country. This stage can, then, be the best time to introduce scientific concepts and skills. This book helps you unlock your child’s potential proficiency in the scientific process by giving you tips on how to introduce topics and what kind of questions to ask. It also provides varied activities that can stimulate your interest and let you pass on that sense of wonder to your child. Just like the Math Play!, it covers most of the topics found in any preschool curriculum, as well as teaches the necessary skills needed by any scientist. Follow the link for a view of this book.

3. 500 Words and Pictures: My First Bilingual Visual Dictionary (English/Filipino) by Fran Ng
The Filipino subject is becoming quite a predicament for most young students today. If you want to avoid this kind of setback for your child, you may want to start introducing the two languages most commonly used in country. This book provides colorful pictures and a wide vocabulary for both English and Filipino.

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4. WWJD (What Would Jesus Do) for Kidz by Mary Hollingsworth
If you are a Christian and would want your child to develop your child’s spiritual self by learning and recalling stories from the Bible, then this book is for you. This book gives a concise version of stories from the Bible that can let your young child sit through them from beginning to end. The font is also friendly for both beginning and proficient readers so they could start reading the stories by themselves. More importantly, it provides learning activities at the end of each story so that your child can remember and understand the stories better.

5. Can You See What I See? Read-and-Seek Series by Walter Wick
These are a series of books that are similar to the “I Spy” Series. Walter Wick added some rhymes, problems to solve, and activities that would keep you and your child engaged for quite some time. It provides good intellectual exercise for it aims to develop several skills such as visual, linguistic, and analytical abilities.

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