How do you teach kidness to young children? Or in my case how do I teach my twins to be kind to each other noting the competition that usually happens between twin children?
Honestly, I turn to storybooks most of the time. I have toddlers, who are turning three years old in two months, who love their books and spend a good amount of their time “reading” (pretend reading actually). I chose books which are fun, insightful, and value-laden coupled with colorful pictures and illustrations which almost always catch and retain their attention.I picked The Princess Twins and the Birthday Party because I have twin children – – a boy and or a girl — who love and hate each other in one same breath. I was told earlier on this would happen to boy-girl twins but the competition is fiercer among same-sex twins whether identical or fraternal. So I was interested how the author would present The Princess Twins and the Birthday Party with twin princesses as main characters.
Written by Mona Hodgson with illustrations by Julie Olson, this book shows twins Abby and Emma as happy and kind girls who are not spoiled even when they are princesses living a privileges life in their castle. For their birthday party, the princess twins invited their friends but were surprised when Beth, one of their friends, left without telling the twins.
The Princess Twins and the Birthday Party is a beginning reader’s book that imparts the value of kindness and compassion for friends.
This storybook is Level 1 of the I Can Read book series, which means that the story has simpler and shorter sentences for eager new readers. The plot is direct and uncomplicated with a clear setting. It won’t be difficult to work on a literature-based lesson plan using this as the story/text selection because of its brevity and simplicity.
Every child learn to read in different ways at varying speed. Having this book in the I Can Read series is a welcomed addition to our home library’s growing list of children’s books namely The Berenstain Bears and Frog and Toad. I got a hardcover copy of this book, which, if you ask me, is a preferred book form for younger readers.
As a kid, I believed that I had a twin sister and we were princesses of a faraway kingdom except that for some unfortunate reason, I was displaced from the kingdom and was separated from my parents and my twin sister. That is why, on a more personal note, I adore this book.
This should be one of those books you’d like to place on your children’s learning corner and can be a good resource when you’re teaching or sharing examples of good moral values.
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