Matchstick

Category: for 3-year-olds

  • Mr. DeMaio – YouTube Channel

    Mr. DeMaio is an elementary school teacher in New Jersey who makes silly and fun absurd educational videos for his students. Since 2013, he’s put a few dozen videos on his YouTube channel His playlists include songs about multiplication and social studies themes, but my kids’ favorites are the ones about space and science Unlike […]

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Pop-Up Book

    [amazon_link asins=’0142419303′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’8c62edd6-470d-11e7-97b9-6516b5a5850c’] This is a story familiar to most. The advantage of the pop-up format is that it makes the book appealing for a wide variety of ages. Younger children will have fun simply exploring the pop-ups and finding every hidden element. Slightly older kids will pick and choose which pages […]

  • 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 […]

  • Doc McStuffins

    [amazon_link asins=’148472187X,B0087NJ7WE’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’afd9c35d-4181-11e7-95a2-dfad8c6ad370′] I first heard of Doc McStuffins from a joke Nick Offerman told about the ubiquity of the character and the show’s theme song. And I couldn’t relate directly, having never seen the show, but I had had similar experiences with other shows, such as Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood or Caillou, […]

  • 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 Giant Jam Sandwich

    [amazon_link asins=’0395442370′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’9bff1d42-4156-11e7-8aad-69df16bb08d0′] This is a classic that our kids asked for again and again, even taking it to kindergarten for show-and-tell. The illustration style is unique and appealing. And the text, written in verse, makes it easy for children to follow along: Bap gave instructions for the making of the dough. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Look out for Mater!

    [amazon_link asins=’0736425829′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’matchstickkidboo’ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’1a1c765e-40c4-11e7-a63e-933c95b805a4′] This is a little golden book about Lightning McQueen trying to be a good friend to Mater, who has a knack for getting in trouble. It has a good lesson about friendship and following rules, even if the kids aren’t into the movie Cars. My kids never got into […]

  • My big train book

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