Brian's parents gave us the Scholastic Storybook Treasury for Christmas. We got it out tonight for the first time, and we loved it. It's a compliation of 100 books, where the pictures from the books are (slightly) animated, and the story is read aloud. Tonight the kids watched Chrysanthemum, Rapunzel, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and a whole bunch of others. We don't have television, so we basically watch things on Playhouse Disney online and DVD's, and we try (emphasis on try) to watch movies only on weekends. The kids loved these stories, and I felt good about letting them watch them (and will probably watch them whenever they want, even during the week) because 1) they're good stories and extremely well put together, 2) they have the words printed at the bottom of the screen so Alyssa can read along if she wants, and 3) there's so many of them, that it's going to take a long while until we can get sick from watching them too many times.
So thank you, Grandma and Grandpa - the kids love it!
2 comments:
That sounds fun! I've got to say I'm extremely impressed with the attempt at weekend only movies. We don't have TV, but we still watch stuff too much. I'm just not ready to get rid of it altogether... but these sound fabulous! Is that where Harold and the Purple Crayon was created? I wonder...
Thanks for your advice Carrie on our blog. I think I'll go with it.
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