Whose Books?
Last week the Victorian government launched a fantastic initiative to improve literacy levels in the state. The Young Readers Program will hand out 70,000 books per year for four years to two year olds visiting their maternal health centre. The first round of books chosen for the project is the wonderful Whose? Series by Australian author/illustrator Jeanette Rowe (published by Allen & Unwin). Each book in the series is a fun guessing game with lift the flaps for finding the answers. In Whose Tail? there is part of a tail poking above the flap; guess whose tail and then reveal the answer underneath the flap.
The program hopes to encourage reading at home rather than just in the classroom. These books seem the perfect choice because they so cleverly combine fun and learning as well as facilitating warm interactions between parent and child.
Rowe’s new book in the series Whose Eggs? would make the perfect Easter present.
My little boy loves these stories. It would be great if the states could coordinate their plans. We live in WA and would love to add more of Jeanette Rowe’s books to our collection.
02 Apr 2008 at 2.52 pm
My son has the book ‘Whose tail?’ and loves it. I didn’t realise it was part of a series. Will have to keep an eye out for some more I think. Great website!
07 Apr 2008 at 11.28 pm