Good day, dear readers! Do you love reading to your kids? I'm not just asking. It is believed that the interest of the crumbs directly depends on the interest of the parent in the work! For kids, this is a ritual, it is important to build it correctly so as not to interrupt the appetite of the little one.

You see, book editions are one of the ways a tomboy gets to know the world. Therefore, it is necessary to treat the choice of literature with a competent approach. What should be books for children 1 2 years old? What are the requirements for their design and what to look for when buying?

I will try to answer these questions based on my personal experience.

No wonder I decided to highlight this moment first. After all, the requirements that should be taken into account when purchasing printed publications depend on this. 1 - 2 years, this is the time of knowledge!

Tell me, is your baby more calm or is he a meteor (now here, in a second he is gone)? Personal characteristics also play a role. Is it easy to interest a child? Everyone is different. But to one degree or another, all children strive to experience something new and quickly switch.

Noticed? Many try to compensate for this with an abundance of toys. But by doing so, parents provoke the fidget to even more activity. Superfasts need something to interest them where they can sit and calm down. Even a couple of minutes, several times a day. Do you understand what I'm getting at? Depending on the interests and products should be bookish.

And it's also time for active babbling! Every day, and sometimes even an hour, the kids are picking up the speed of speech. But not only the variety of vocabulary is important, but also the quality. It is on these features that it depends what to read to children.

Design Requirements

I wonder if you have come across a product that is clearly full of errors? And not only punctuation, but also spelling. Our brains are already formed. And the kids are just laying the concept of what is good, what is bad. I am figuratively talking about the culture of pronunciation of words. If you read the wrong names, sound combinations, unrelated texts from childhood, this will become fixed in your head. And at school it will be difficult to relearn.

1. Literacy of registration, therefore, the main requirement. Well, at least it wasn't obvious.
2. Pictures should clearly exceed the text in volume. It's good when the illustrations are bright and clear.
3. But for especially bright ones, pay attention to the quality of the paint so that it does not smear and smell disgusting. Take it for a child.
4. Choose small texts, because little tomboys are easily rearranged from topic to topic. They do not like to linger for a long time at one pier!

Have you already compared these parameters with the publications you have at home? A few rules, I think, to comply with them is not so difficult. But under them, you still need to decide what groups of books should be on the baby’s bookshelf?

The best works

We will call the best not only those that fit the above requirements. Here it is necessary to determine what else will interest the picky consumer! And to make it useful. After all, this is the basis of choice for mothers? Here is a list of what should be on the shelf in the children's room:

1. Fairy tales.
2. Poems, short quatrains. After all, the baby is already able to remember. Soon he will delight you, standing on a chair near the Christmas tree, telling the first verse in his life! And if while the child does not reproduce what he read, this does not mean that his brain has not learned the information. Even as learned and remembered!
3. Developing. Necessary for the improvement of fine motor skills and the formation of speech.
4. Songs.
5. nursery rhymes

Take the time to read to the kids. Give them the opportunity to choose what you will study today. Now let's go through the list a bit.

Fairy tales

Well, this goodness should be in abundance in any home where there are children. What works come to your mind? Probably the ones we grew up with. To be honest, when you turn on the children's channel, sometimes you get disappointed. Foreigners often. And with great pleasure you call the children to the screen when they show old cartoons. Remember those screencaps? I think they were more good. Well, according to books, the same work may differ in retellings.

My friend came across the fairy tale "Masha and the Bear". My daughter loves it, there are panoramic pictures. But my mother was horrified when she read it. Masha's name is not listed anywhere. Every sentence has a "she". The tautology is terrible! And the names of the bears are distorted: the plate was Nastasina Petrovnina. Tell me, well, why such a hunk of language for a child? After all, the baby gets used to it and will consider such speech to be correct.

In general, the good old fairy tales are good. Even retold. But the essence of this does not change. The main thing is that at least the slightest norms of the language are observed. So check before you buy. You probably remember the names: "Turnip", "Rocked Hen", "Teremok", "Zayushkina's hut". And many others, no less interesting!

Poems

Very enchanted little kids listen to poetry. Small, maybe quatrains. Here the choice is great: about animals, who has a mother, seasons, etc. Some parents talk at lunchtime, and while the little one opens his mouth, they feed him. I don't know if this is correct, but it helps for the most part. Although, someone claims that at this time the fidget should manage the spoon himself. But everyone's tastes are different! This is where you have to get out! Well, about the quatrains. I would also include here, some developmental ones. It is good to combine business with pleasure. Yes, and the form of the game by the age of 2 will interest the fidget.

1. Karganova E.G. "Moms and Babies". Shows the little one that the animals also have mothers. What is it called, what sounds does it make. This is transmitted to the child in poetic form, which is easier to digest.
2. Chertkov Sergey "Riddles with clues". Small essays about animals. More precisely, their clear description, and next to the picture with the image. Provocation crumbs to talk, so to speak! I have seen it in hardcover. You open it, and the eyes are glued to the animals. This seems unusual for children, they hold their attention on such a moment.
3. Drobotova E. "Parts of the day." An abundance of pictures showing what to do in the morning, afternoon, evening and night. Small quatrains complete the book.
4. Agniya Barto. I think it's a very good option, because it's interesting and short. And the presence of illustrations is up to the publishing house. Really, check this one out. At 1.5 years old, the kid is driven by interest, and the words for him are a reinforcement of what is drawn.
5. « One hundred favorite poems for kids". I don't name the author because it's a collection. Here are all our classics: Marshak, Mikhalkov, Uspensky. Agree, they have already established themselves as first-class authors for children of different generations! Another interesting book Big book of fairy tales and poems for the little ones", authors Marshak, Barto, Mikhalkov.

Perhaps you, too, can tell something. What poems do you tell your children?

Educational

We have in our arsenal of developers " School of the Seven Dwarfs". The name is telling, because the series of books consists of seven cycles. Designed for children up to 7 years old. And for the age of 1 2 years, the series is aimed at improving the skills that are inherent in the children of this period. Publications teach to determine whose voice, feelings, colors it is. General educational cycles, kids like it.

In addition, they bought big album on the development of speech. A very smart purchase. Do you know why? He teaches to develop not only speech function, but also logic. The crumbs are taught the correct retelling, thinking.

With stickers also available. This is a hit! Motor development is excellent. You need to pick up the sticker, take it with two fingers, figure out where to stick it. I also want to highlight sketchbooks finger paints. It is still difficult to keep a brush at 1.5 years old correctly. But to create with the help of paints: yes, please! But for some reason, a child of mine did not like to get her fingers dirty with something. The age was like that. And at the age of 3 he does it with a bang. She asks to draw with her hands. Although it already works with a brush.

What should be? Councils for the selection of writers and popular compositions.

Well, there is no need to talk about the benefits of fine motor skills for the speech apparatus. The benefits are undeniable! So get useful books for your readers. Delight will be the sea! After all, you can not only read them, you can even draw in some of them.

Puzzles for the mind

There is literature a little more complicated. It teaches the baby to identify groups of objects, is aimed at logical thinking by solving the simplest children's problems. I am personally familiar with a series of books by Olga Zemtsova. There was a lot of controversy around these publications. But 1.5-year-olds need to be explained the simplest things. Just through the game, the little ones will find out. For example, " Puzzles for the mind” from the series “Developing thinking”.

I will give a few examples. The picture shows cups of different shapes and colors, but they belong to a certain group - dishes. Or you need to find one extra item among T-shirts and sleds - sleds. The study of colors, shapes. Understanding that objects of the same groups, for example, vehicles, can be of different sizes and shapes.

And here " Tests for children". There is an improvement of sensory, thinking, logic. For example, find a pyramid from a variety of objects. Or find two identical objects, a high and a low house. These are the simplest concepts, the perception of which takes place in a playful way, on life examples. It is good to reinforce these concepts at home, on everyday things. While walking, etc.

Great selection of books for the little ones here. I recommend checking it out! Can you suggest me some cool books for kids?

Songs

For the formation of the sound apparatus, the development of the lungs, the beat of music, it is good to have at home several publications with children's songs. There are 2 options here:

1. When only the text is written, there are pictures, but you yourself sing for the baby. And he sings along to you in his Tilimilitryam.
2. Musical and speaking. Even with a piano.

But the latter can frighten the little researcher at first. Do not turn on the sound unexpectedly, tell us that the music will now play. And, in general, such items are very even tomboys approve. And at the first good impression, they will drag an interesting book to holes!

But older people prefer the first option. It is best perceived in a mother's voice. Well, yes, this is not artificial, you sing, explain to the little one, how to do it right. You can stock both options. The child will dance to the music, and sing along with you. From the songs I can offer:

1. Two cheerful geese.
2. There was a birch in the field.
3. Kalinka is my raspberry.
4. Rain - rain is more fun, drip, drip, don't be sorry.

Sing and read cheerfully and with expression. You can show the dance of little ducklings. It is interesting to back up the song with dance.

nursery rhymes

In general, this group can also be attributed to poems. But their purpose is different: to stir up, even distract the baby! Do you know that when a child falls or hits, in no case should you show your fear to your parents?

If you zaykat, it is no longer clear why the child will roar more: that he hit or that he was frightened by our lamentations. But let me tell you, it is very difficult to get used to it. At first, it was difficult to cope with emotions. Then you slowly get used to it.

Here, either experienced grandmothers, with experience, who keep jokes in their heads, or books - nursery rhymes, can help! And not only in this they are good. In general, the baby’s mood is bad, or he got up on the wrong foot, or he doesn’t want to brush his teeth!

Here is a short bibliography:

1. "Goose - red paws." The author, unfortunately, is not specified, apparently folk art. And the series is called "My cheerful friends", Rosmen publishing house. I liked the fact that the information is easy to remember, on each page there is a separate nursery rhyme with colorful images of characters. Babies are treated with pleasure, and they also listen with great interest!
2. « Shadow - shadow - sweat". Pure folk art! A variety of bright illustrations and a minimum of words on each page for a little joke.

What jokes are you familiar with? How do you distract your child? Perhaps there are ways. Tell us about them

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For harmonious development, the child needs constant communication with books. Children who "read" with their mothers get acquainted with the world around them from a very young age. Such reading has a beneficial effect on the early development of mental abilities and the expansion of horizons. Babies 1-2 years of age can be the most grateful listeners, or they can categorically refuse to look into a book, so it is important to choose the right literature.

Reading books should be started at an early age.

What books can be read to a child from 0 to 6 months?

Children can be introduced to books from birth. It is better to start reading with small rhymes and nursery rhymes: babies perfectly perceive poetic and musical rhythm. Not yet understanding the meaning of words, babies react to the tact of speech and mother's intonation. When the voice sounds affectionate and playful, the child smiles, and if the mother’s tone is serious, then the baby becomes attentive and focused (see also:). This contributes to the emotional formation of personality.

For the development of imaginative thinking, you can show a two-three month old baby bright drawings in books, talking about each picture. Do not rush, small children need only one or two pictures at a time.

How to read books to a baby from 6 months to 1 year?

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A six-month-old baby is often actively interested in books, because at this age, babies are interested in everything that surrounds them. Of course, the child will not read and look at books, but he will try to gnaw, shake or tear. Books for six-month-old babies should be made of fabric, rubber or dense polyethylene.

Introduce your 1 year old to soft toy books to develop tactile memory and fine motor skills. Soft books can be crushed and touched, stroked, bathed in the bathroom, looking at bright pictures. Also show your baby "talking" books. A child will definitely be interested in a cow mooing from a turn, a meowing cat or a croaking frog. It is better if mom shows how to “read” correctly: carefully turn pages, press buttons, listen carefully and repeat sounds. You can name the animals shown in the pictures.

A soft toy book will help develop not only the baby's imagination, but also fine motor skills, and you can make it yourself

Up to a year, children concentrate on books for several moments, which means that it is better to have 5-6 bright educational books in stock and keep them within reach. When the child's interest fades, you can change the books, taking out previously hidden ones. The kid will meet them with great joy.

Basic rules for reading to a child under 1 year old

• You need to read in a calm environment, turning off the TV and putting aside your phone and laptop. It is better to put aside toys that can distract the child.
• Turn one reading session into a pleasant ritual. Read books to your baby up to 1 year old every day at the same time, for example, before going to bed after bathing.
• You need to read poetry with expression, clearly pronouncing each sound. It is useful to read, changing intonation: higher, lower, louder, in different voices.
• Show your child all the pictures in the book. Move the child's finger over the image, naming the elements of the picture: "This is the sun, clouds, grass, bunny."
• If possible, demonstrate the actions described in the book: swing for the bull on the board, stomp for the bear, cry for Tanya.
• Put the book aside as soon as you notice that the child is tired of it. Pick up another book next time.

It is better to read a book at the same time, for example, before going to bed.

Books can be with or without text. Small rhythmic quatrains are best perceived by children. They are easily remembered by mothers after 1-2 readings. Learned nursery rhymes can be told to the baby regularly on the street, in the park, on the playground. The most liked verses the child will demand to repeat again and again.

Paper books can be offered to a child at the age of about a year. For safety reasons, it is not recommended to leave children alone with printed materials; books can be not only torn, but also chewed.

Requirements for educational books for children under the age of 2

Choose books with colorful illustrations, mostly on a white background. On each sheet there is no more than one drawing that is well known to the child: smiling faces, animals, trees.

It is better if the animals are depicted as naturally as possible - as they are found in wildlife - without hats, glasses and beads. There is a huge amount of children's literature in the stores these days. When choosing a book, you should pay attention to whether the hygienic requirements for the publication are met: the material from which the book is made is important. The product itself should be strong, dense, and best of all washable.

Colorful educational books, when read by mom, will help the baby learn new words and objects

The most interesting series of books for the youngest "readers" are presented in the list:

1. Series "My first book": "This is me"; "Animals"; "The car"; "The words"; "Farm". Colorful books with funny pictures are specially designed for children from 6 months to 1 year old.
2. Series "Lessons for kids": "Different voices"; "In the forest", "Let's play." Cardboard books with a small description of the items depicted.
3. Series "Topotushki": R.Sef. "My bear", "Jests". Made of thick cardboard with rounded edges, they are perfect as the first books for the baby.
4. Series "For the little ones". Poems of favorite authors A. Barto, B. Zakhoder, S. Mikhalkov and others.
5. Russian folk tales for children: "Turnip", "Teremok", "Ryaba Hen". Suitable for children from 0 to 2 years old. Even the most modern mothers grew up on these fairy tales.
6. V. Stepanov: "Miracles", "It's good next to mom", "Mishka's birthday", "Bunny's coat" are small poems with a good rhythm.

Agnia Barto's poems have been loved by everyone since childhood, and if the book is supplemented with musical accompaniment, then the baby will be doubly pleased

Educational books for children from 0 to 2 years

The development kit has recently gained great popularity among parents. "My First Words". The series includes 15 cube books with vivid illustrations on the topics:

• "Food" - will help you learn the names of fruits, vegetables, and other equally delicious foods. You can work with the baby before lunch, after class the child will probably want to eat.
• "Nature" - will help the baby remember the names of plants, flowers and trees, show what weather phenomena look like. Playing with a book, the child will be able to quickly adapt to the world around him and develop imaginative thinking.
• "Colors" - will help you learn all the colors of the rainbow, and even more, teach you how to compare colors in the picture and in life.
• "Pets" - the kid will learn what cats, dogs, chickens, horses and other representatives of the domestic fauna look like. It will be interesting for the child to learn how animals scream, after a couple of lessons he himself will be able to repeat many sounds.
• "Clothes" - the child will find out why clothes are needed, when they need to be worn, how summer clothes differ from winter clothes. Regular classes will help you learn new words, colors, and items of clothing.
• "My House" - will teach a 1 - 2 year old child to recognize household items. He will tell you what furniture, toys, dishes look like.

You can not only “read” books-cubes, but also play with them - build turrets and houses, put them in their places. Choose the right developing children's literature, do not force the child to study through force, and then reading will become one of the baby's favorite activities.

Clinical and perinatal psychologist, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Perinatal and Reproductive Psychology and Volgograd State Medical University with a degree in clinical psychology

Here is an overview of development aids.

At this age, there is already plenty to choose from, and kids, as a rule, willingly complete tasks from books, if they are not overloaded.

Of course, all books develop the child, and indeed everything that surrounds him. However, in these manuals, everything is divided by topic and is aimed at developing specific skills.

And how obligatory are educational books for children? I don't think there is anything a child can't do without. But such benefits make life very easy for parents and give guidance on what to do with the child, what you can generally study with him.

"School seven dwarfs"(Ozone, My-shop).

There is probably no mother who has not heard about the School of the Seven Dwarfs. Some books designed for children up to a year are perfect for a year, and of course those for one-year-olds.

For example, I really like the book "Square and Circle". It is aimed at developing the child's ability to distinguish objects by size, shape and color - what is needed at 1 year old.

"Fold the picture" is also a great tutorial. By the way, you can make it yourself by cutting any large pictures into two parts and inviting the baby to connect them.

Our favorite books from the "School of the Seven Dwarfs" series are "My Home", "Walks around the City", in "The Village and the Country House". Antoshka looked at them for a long time, got acquainted with new concepts, and looked for suitable pictures. Other books also fascinated him.

In all books, large pictures are clear and understandable to the child, without unnecessary details. The text is short, designed specifically for children 1-2 years old, simple tasks.

Benefits O.N. Zemtsova(Ozone, My-shop).

This is a whole system aimed at the mental development of the child. We began to engage in them from about 1.5 years.

These are really well-composed tasks from a candidate of pedagogical sciences. Here is mathematics, acquaintance with the outside world, the development of speech, thinking, memory, attention, fine motor skills. Zemtsova's allowances are real helpers for any parent.

Here all the books are good, we bought the whole series.

Series « Let's grow!» Lena Danilova (Ozone, My-shop).

Here you can also endlessly enumerate what these benefits are aimed at developing. We also bought everything and have no regrets.

Lots of tips and tricks for parents. Antoshka studied them with pleasure, and for me this is the main indicator of quality.

When buying, be careful - there are books for children over 2 years old.

"(Labyrinth, Ozone).

This is a voluminous colorful guide. Whatever topics are not introduced here to the child: animals, shapes, colors, opposites and much more. Simple and interesting tasks.

Online reviews are mostly rave. I would simply say that this is a very good manual, but it did not cause delight in us, including the work of some artists.

"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).

The book is intended for children from 6 months to 3 years. It was in half a year that she appeared with us. And now in 3.8 we sometimes open it.

This book deservedly is a bestseller. I have complaints about some of the illustrations, or rather the quality of the print. But the book is nonetheless well-read, it is the most tattered of all, which speaks of how often we read it.

This manual has analogues. What to choose is already a matter of taste:

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This is an overview of our books for children 1-2 years old and up. I will only talk about those books that Antoshka loves and reads with pleasure.

In general, at this age, the child is still interested in all those books that I talked about in the article. Among them are poems by Agnia Barto, books with illustrations by Y. Vasnetsov and many others.

At this age, we also introduce the baby to. And of course, in 1 - 2 years they will be a real hit

In general, all these divisions by age are very conditional. And we are happy to read in 3.8 most of the books that I talk about in this article.

Poems for kids

"My Bear" by Zinaida Alexandrova Will be a hit with any child. Just imagine - the book has been reprinted for almost 70 years! Large colorful illustrations, A4 book size.

And here are other books for children 1 - 2 years old from the series "Subtle masterpieces for the little ones" from the publishing house Melik-Pashayev.

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Poems by S. Mikhalkov in drawings by V. Suteev(Labyrinth). Poems by V. Mikhalkov for the little ones, and even in illustrations by V. Suteev - what could be better? The book contains the poems "My Puppy", "Trezor", "Stubborn Frog", the first part of the poem "Uncle Styopa".

In our book there was also a poem "About a girl who ate badly." But here, unfortunately, it is not. But it is in the next collection of poems.

Poems in pictures by V. Suteev(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).

Excellent book content. Here are poems by S. Mikhalkov, S. Marshak, K. Chukovsky, V. Beresov. In the collection there is just a poem "About a girl who ate badly." But besides this, there are many other poems and fairy tales for the little ones.

Beautiful illustrations by everyone's favorite artist.

Tales of Chukovsky in pictures by Vladimir Suteev(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).

And again V. Suteev. Where without him! Well, who better than him to illustrate K. Chukovsky?

The following tales are presented in the book: "Aibolit". "Moydodyr", "Fedorino grief", "Cockroach", "Phone", "Crocodile".

Excellent edition: large format, dense pages, amazing print quality! One of Antoshkin's most beloved books.

S. Marshak "All the best for the little ones"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop) .

A huge collection of poems and fairy tales from Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak. Here and "Children in a Cage", and the alphabet in verses and pictures, English and Czech songs and much more.

Fairy tales for children 1 - 2 years old

"Tales and Pictures" by V.G. Suteev(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop). How I loved this book as a child! Her son loved her too. What a blessing that publishing houses produce good old authors.

The first few fairy tales are suitable for the smallest here, but the book will be relevant at 2, and 3 years, and even at 5. And when the child learns to read, I'm sure he will read it on his own with pleasure.

Here are interesting, kind and funny tales. And what illustrations! I highly recommend to everyone. Of all the versions of the book, I like this one the most, because. and the format is the most suitable for kids, and the quality of the paper is on top.

"The Fox and the Mouse" by Vitaly Bianchi(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop). Another book from our childhood. Large format, excellent print quality from the Melik-Pashayev publishing house.

Each book with illustrations by Y. Vasnetsov is a real artistic masterpiece. Is there a child who doesn't like it?

"Bedtime Stories" Karol Roth(Ozone, My-shop). A wonderful book that you can buy closer to 2 years. Beautiful full page illustrations, three interesting tales that are perfect for bedtime reading.

Antoshka will soon be 4 years old, and now he listens with pleasure to stories about Winnie the bunny and Lenny the lamb.

At the age of one and a half, it is better to shorten the text - not every child will sit through. But the plot will be clear and interesting even to the smallest readers.

The following books are not really fairy tales, but just stories for the little ones.

"The Max Series"”(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop) from the Samokat publishing house are stories about a two-year-old baby Max. They will not only entertain your child, but also help to teach him to the potty, get rid of the fear of swimming, etc.

The illustrations are very simple and the minimum of text is what little readers need.

However, not all books in this series are successful. For example, a story about a pacifier, I would not read to my child. There is nothing instructive in it, and in general the content is very doubtful.

"Masha and Misha" is a series of books about two friends that will help you put your child to bed, teach them to brush their teeth, dress themselves, and adapt to kindergarten. Sufficiently dense pages, simple drawings and household situations familiar to the baby.

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Panorama books are a great option for introducing a child to the first fairy tales and poems for the little ones. Such books are interesting both in a year and in three.

But they will suit you if the baby handles books carefully enough. Otherwise, for children at 1 - 2 years old, it is better to choose ordinary cartons.

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Books on the development of speech from 1 to 2 years

Series “Let's talk. First Phrases »(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop) from the publishing house "Karapuz". I already mentioned this series in the article about books under the year. To those books, you can safely add the rest of this series, but designed for children 1 - 2 years old.

These books are aimed at the development of the child's speech, which is a priority at this age, along with physical development. Thick glossy pages, simple and understandable images, tips for parents on how to read them.

Series "Lessons of politeness"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop) from the publishing house "Karapuz". The books are made in the same style as the books from the previous series. The author of many of them is also S.N. Savushkin. In an accessible form, children are introduced to the rules of politeness.

Series “Baby's First Books. Learning new words"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop) from the Smile publishing house. These are Wimmelbuchs for the little ones.

We have 9 books from this series. But the most popular with Antoshka are those about construction, the farm and equipment on the farm, they are interesting to his son even now, at 3 years 7 months. Books in this series perfectly expand the vocabulary of the child, acquaint him with the world around him, develop memory and attention.

Developing books from Yana are held in high esteem. She can complete book assignments indefinitely and we always complete them on my initiative. Given their usefulness, I took care of the variety. For the study of any topic, books are usually divided into theoretical and practical.

Theory. As a source of theoretical knowledge for children under three years old, encyclopedias in pictures are ideal. With the help of encyclopedias:

1. the child structures knowledge about familiar objects of the surrounding world (about household items, etc.) from pictures, accompanied by stories and comments from parents.
2. the child learns many new objects and their characteristics. These are objects that are difficult or impossible to observe in everyday life, but in modern society it is customary to know about them. For example, it is difficult to watch birds, even for city birds. Some can be fed in the park, but for example, it is difficult to see birds of prey eating. A child can see forest animals only in the zoo, and the minute that we pass by the cage with wolves is not enough for the child to get to know the animals.

Overview of encyclopedias for the little ones with illustrations.

Practice. Collections of developing tasks are effective for working out and structuring knowledge. In addition to being effective, young children adore them. The main thing is to choose the difficulty in accordance with the development of the child. In this review, I want to talk about two representatives of developing collections:

• development of logic. We used large collections of practical tasks " smart books» from Machaon.
• . For the little ones, the best collections are - educational notebooks Kumon 2+ (glue, draw, fold, cut out). Also, stickers are great for developing motor skills at 1.5-2 years old. Read the review.
• speech development. Review of books for the development of speech.

Educational books 1-2 years | Smart books from Makhaon

About illustrations: The books in this series are made by different illustrators. Apparently, it is impossible to demand a high level of aesthetics from educational literature. The owners of the "School of 7 Gnomes" (a popular series of educational books) speak of this series as more successful in terms of design. In a detailed comparison, thin books seemed to me better sustained in terms of colors. There are a lot of frames and colored pages in the test books, which in my opinion overload the general view (this moment was not conveyed in the photo).

Several spreads:

Math assignment from "First Steps"

task for Thinking from "First Steps"

assignment for the development of Sensorics from the "First Steps"

task for Attention book "From simple to complex"

assignment in Mathematics book "From simple to complex"

assignment for the development of Sensory book "What I know and can do"

In the development of Yana, these books were in great demand, interesting and informative. We worked very hard with them.

The biggest problem with developing collections is difficult tasks that a child cannot cope with. This is due to differences in terms of development. As a rule, all children develop unevenly. Each has its own characteristics. One compares the length well, but finds it difficult to find the missing elements of the picture. Another child, on the contrary, does well with tasks for finding missing elements, but problems with length comparisons. All this is within the normal range! No one has any exceptions! It's just that everyone has a slightly different maturation plan.

When studying a collection, there is always a desire to solve it in its entirety. But often the difficulty level of some tasks is not available. You have to make a choice:

• dwell on the collection, which includes many easy tasks for the child.
• it is more difficult to pass the collection, but leave some of the tasks unsolved. We have always used this option. When solving the next task, I put a mark with the age of Yana, in which she first completed the task. Thus, returning six months later to the collection, it was clear which tasks were previously difficult and needed to be solved. Often we solved difficult tasks after six months or a year.

Kumon educational notebooks (glue, draw, fold, cut out)

This series of educational collections is aimed at developing motor skills.

Each of the Kumon notebooks contains a large set of tasks with increasing difficulty. This is in line with the Japanese Kumon technique. The First Steps series for kids from 2 years old consists of four notebooks:

• "Let's glue";
• "Let's put the pictures together";
• "Let's cut";
• "Let's draw."

It is very convenient to deal with them due to the division of tasks according to the developed skills. We get about a half-hour lesson for the development of motor skills, which includes two or three tasks from each notebook. Yana immediately remembered the ratio of classes with the animals depicted on the cover: drawing with a kitty, gluing with a dog, etc. She herself chooses notebooks, the tasks from which are easiest for her 🙂 . Below are a few words about each:

Yana liked the most "Let's Glue"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop). The notebook contains 64 pages and begins with tasks with stickers. Then there are applications of different levels of complexity using glue. Yana does an excellent job with these tasks, and the resulting little animals lead her to indescribable delight.

"Let's put the pictures together"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop)

This notebook is essentially a collection of origami for two-year-olds. At the beginning, the simplest tasks are given, as a result of which it is required to make only one addition of the sheet. At the end contains tasks for performing already 5-6 folds.

At the moment, even one fold causes difficulties for Yana. When patience is lost, the “chips” that each of the ready-made crafts have come to the rescue:

• if you fold the bunny, he will close his eyes;
• if you unfold a zebra, you can see its tail;
• if you turn the bear, he will change clothes.

These little things cause a storm of emotions and a desire to learn how to add pictures further.

	One of the very first (easy) tasks	Difficult task
	The blank is a two-sided picture. On the one hand, a bear is drawn in panties, on the other in clothes.	Folded bear in clothes. When deployed, he "takes off" clothes.

"Let's Draw"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop)

Drawing is a familiar activity for us, so there is no such surprise as with other Kumon classes. The first tasks are the simplest and do not require accuracy, in the latter you should try not to get beyond the contour. At first glance, the price of this creative coloring book may seem overpriced, but if we take into account that it has not the standard 8 pages, but as many as 80 and excellent quality of design, then the price tag no longer seems overpriced.

"Let's cut"(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop)

This notebook has not "gone" with us yet. Yana currently lacks the motor skills to use scissors, but we just turned two years old. I think by two and a half we will make the first progress. In addition, I found that for the smallest there are special scissors with an open state lock.

UPDATE: Now Yana is already 2.7. Scissors with a latch of the open state justified themselves. I advise everyone to start with them. Yana cuts quite tolerantly with them. Small incisions go "with a bang." Cutting a large sheet is more difficult, but this is a task that is quite capable. Additionally, we upgraded the cutting skill by cutting off small parts from strips of paper. It also turned out to be interesting to cut the dough for modeling. A detailed post about the chronology of Yana's introduction to scissors.

As we begin to cope with the tasks, I will definitely add a photo of the finished crafts, but for now I have given a photo of several tasks below:

On the Internet, I met a comparison of "Kumons" with other educational collections, but for the age of 2-3 years I could not find anything like that. Usually gluing, folding and cutting are offered to older kids.

By the way, please note that the format of the notebooks is small A5 (half of the landscape sheet), and the color scheme is close to muted (the photo turned out a little brighter than in reality).

In addition to the above notebooks from the Kumon “First Steps” series, for two-year-olds, I found:

• "Simple mazes" (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop);
• "Simple Lines" (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-shop).

"Baby's First Textbook"

Neskuchalka is intended as a child's entertainment on the road, queues and other situations when waiting is planned. In general, it is recommended for older kids (from 3 years old), but I presumptuously decided to try it in our 2 years old. Some tasks went, but in general, of course, it's too early.

The book is distinguished by creative illustrations and design in a modern style. For how long it can take a three-year period, I still find it difficult to say. Yana, realizing that some pages are intended for coloring, has already selflessly crossed out a couple of spreads 😀 . But motor skills still do not allow her to get into such small contours. Many tasks require speech, which is also beyond our control. In general, at the moment, our Neskuchalka is bored on the bookshelf. And here are a few twists:

This concludes my selection for now, as new books are purchased, this post will be updated.

Finally

Many may wonder, “what about the popular “School of 7 Dwarfs?” (My-shop, Ozon). In my opinion, "School of 7 Dwarfs" is an option for those who do not want to independently select books from the whole variety. By purchasing one book from all the categories listed in this post, you will get a much better set of educational materials with high-quality illustrations and a comparable or even lower price. The only gaps will be books for finger drawing and modeling, because I have not been able to stop at any so far.

I hope this post will help you navigate the choice of the first educational books for your baby!

• (1.5-2 years). It would seem that stickers are pampering? And for children of one year, this material effectively develops fine motor skills!
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