As I have mentioned before, my husband and I love reading and try to raise our daughter to love books and reading too. When I saw a fellow blogger Menai mentioning a 300 Picture Book Reading Challenge, I was intrigued.
The concept of the challenge is to read minimum 5-6 picture books a week to your kids, so that in the end of the year, you have enjoyed around 300 new books. As we started the challenge in the end of February, I should read minimum 220 books/stories to Sofia. Also, we are making some changes compared to an original challenge.
Our challenge will be about reading every day. We want to try to read to our daughter every day, so we need at least 7 new books/stories every week.
We don’t own a lot of books and our closest library has only a small selection of kids books, so it will be a big challenge for us to find new books for every week. As we are a bilingual family, we will be reading books both in Estonian and Spanish. My husband wants to take part in the challenge too, so he does the Spanish part of the reading and I will do the Estonian part.
As some of the books we have at home are collection of fairy tales, I will count every tale as a book. We have only couple of books in Estonian, so I will translate some of the Spanish books to Estonian. There may be a possibility that we have to read some e-books, if we don’t find any new paperback books.
As Sofia is 17 months at the moment, we will be discovering the book during the day, learning new words, looking at the pictures and in the evening, one of us will read her the story.
Here are our books of the week #1 of #300PBs challenge
1. El Gatito dice Miau!
2. Dora Quiere a Botas (Dora la Exploradora)
3. Los Tres Cerditos: . . . y el Lobo Feroz
4. La Pequeña Oruga Glotona
5. Bebé Koala. El Cumpleaños
6. Buenas Noches, Penélope
7. Animales Del Zoo
8. Una sorpresa para Lilu/ A Surprise for Lilu
Our #300PBs Pinterest board:
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That’s sucha great idea and I love that you’re fostering a love of reading in your little one!
Great challenge! I should try doing this with my son, using storybooks instead of just picture books since he can read now. 🙂
Love that you are using books in Spanish, as a Spanish teacher, I highly recommend that to parents!
We got in the habit of reading 2-3 books EVERY night with our kids. So, we get through lots of books each year!
Great year long event! My daughter reads every night to her children! She always picks up books at rummage sales and thrift shops. She also has a group of PTO Moms that share books – pass them around. That really helps save $$$. Another way is her Kindle – free books!
what a wonderful challenge!!! I read A LOT with my kids too…we would read repeat books but it instilled the love for reading for sure!
We read every night to our boy and BOY is he smart! Reading to your child is THE best thing you can do! And to do it in two languages!! You rock!
I wish I would’ve learned spanish books as a kid! Would’ve been great to grow up knowing a little more spanish!
I have to get my daughter more Spanish board books. Great list.
Great idea! I read to my children also.
Wow, quite a lot of patience you both have!! I love that worm book, I had it also. 🙂
I love that my kids love to read and be read to. My older ones will read to my littlest too.
That is rad!!!! What a cool idea!
I love this idea.. I am never sure if I read enough to my kids this will help me make sure I do.. so I am joining the challenge.
Fantastic idea. You see my boys were both little stinkers and always wanted to re-read the same few books over and over again. It was hard to introduce new ones in there sometimes.
Great idea! We seem to repeat ours over and over again so the parents get bored. I think this is a great idea to keep everyone engaged and reading.
Love this! Anything that gets kids interested in books from a young age is so important!
What an awesome idea! I will have to do this once I have a kid. 🙂
I think this is a great way to encourage reading. I love to read too and it’s incredible to see that love reflected in our children. We zip out to the library often to find new books!
My kids loved reading with me. We had a lot of fun picking out books together.
I need to read more to my little one. I’m going to try this challenge and read with him every day.
This is such a great idea!
Thank-you for joining in, so glad to have you in #300PBs. I think you’re the first bilingual family too, so your books are going to be really interesting to see. Definitely count stories (or chapters of longer books) separately or it’s just too hard 🙂