Matchstick

Category: for 2-year-olds

  • I’ll See You in the Morning

    [amazon_link asins=’0811865436′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e8305ded-9e22-11e7-b6a9-67ce4bb73f67′] Like all the books on this site, this is one that our kids pull off the shelf and ask to be read over and over. A difference here is that they’ve been hearing this book being read longer than they can even remember. The theme is of comforting a […]

  • Jungle Party

    [amazon_link asins=’0545362504′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’9a7f3bc8-5137-11e7-b51b-f3c717739285′] This is another book that our kids regularly pull off the shelf year after year. It comes with paper dolls, stickers, and a party hat, and other stuff, so has some extra fun. We have since lost everything but the book itself, but we still enjoy that. The papercraft […]

  • Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

    [amazon_link asins=’1902272390′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’37b82cfb-512b-11e7-8cd6-a3b6529f2a19′] There are plenty of collections of nursery rhymes, partly because the text is not copyrighted and publishers don’t have to pay author royalties. But nursery rhymes remain popular among young children because they are fun and the simple rhymes make them a good too when learning to read. It’s […]

  • Peek-A Who?

    [amazon_link asins=’0811826023′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b685d75e-511f-11e7-a717-8dac3381d19d’] This is one of the books that has survived multiple children. It’s been chewed on, dropped, thrown, left under couches and sofas, and traveled with us to faraway places. It’s only a few pages, with a handful of words, but this gets the A+ seal of approval from our […]

  • The Deep Blue Sea – A Book of Colors

    [amazon_link asins=’0439753821′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’7dff6053-470b-11e7-a710-954fd95c5db2′] This unique, somewhat minimalist book is about colors, but also encourages discovery and anticipation. The pictures begin right at the start of the book, on the inside of the cover, and continue all the way through to the inside of the back cover. Each page introduces a new color […]

  • Press Here – Hervé Tullet

    [amazon_link asins=’0811879542′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’ac5f34fa-459a-11e7-927d-15430e81c81f’] Known simply as ‘Un livre’ (a book) in its original French publication, ‘Press Here’ is a fun book that our kids enjoyed and wanted to read again and again. Of all our books, this one has probably been physically damaged the most through heavy use. The book asks the […]

  • Geckos Make a Rainbow, Geckos Go To Bed

    We bought these two books when we lived in Hawai’i and were standard bedtime reading for our two-year-old, even after we moved to the mainland. They were precious enough to lug with us. The drawings are fun and there is enough Hawai’ian imagery and references for the stories to feel a bit ‘exotic’ to some […]

  • The Monster at the End of This Book

    [amazon_link asins=’0307010856′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’87063d36-40c4-11e7-90c2-0d95fdc38dcc’] My kids were scared of this book at first and it took a lot of convincing to read it. After they saw the twist ending however, they asked for it over and over, proud that they had conquered their fear. A classic. An interesting dynamic occurs after the first […]

  • My big train book

    [amazon_link asins=’0312519435′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’f75d305d-40bf-11e7-b53a-cf1fe75d553d’] This is the only book that we have three copies of, one at home and one at each of the kids’ grandfathers’ houses. There’s not much to it, just a bunch of pictures of trains. There is no story, but it’s a book the kids seem to enjoy reading […]

  • I like vegetables

    [amazon_link asins=’0763652830′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’65092a9a-40bf-11e7-bd50-a9403d4d2538′] This is a board book about vegetables (obviously) and opposites (above/below, inside/outside, etc.) and also has textures on the pages that the kids can feel. It’s a simple book but one of the popular ones. Our 4-year-old even pulls it out sometimes.