4yo DD memorised The Gruffalo Book

[cupcakecookie]

My DH was playing with the kids last night whne our DD4 picked up the Gruffalo book and started 'reading it'. Cue DH shouting for me to 'come and listen to this'.

How sweet, it was every single word, but DH was gutted when he realised that she wasnt really reading!

Julia Donaldson's books are great for this - I can recite large chunks of them, and so can the DDs. Comes in handy on long boring car journeys........

at your DH thinking she was actually reading it!

Bless him. :) How old is DD4?

I love the Gruffalo and so does DD. She's 4 as well and she 'read' it to grandad who went away thinking he had a genius grand daughter!!

ds does this as well (he's 4) and will recite on the way to nursery in the mornings. takes us 2.5 times to get there :o

DD (4.5) does this with 'A Squash and a Squeeze' and 'There was an old woman who swallowed a fly' - it is lovely and it means I can get away with listening to rather than reading the bedtime story!

DD has done this with all the books we read and she's only 3.0 No, seriously, it's very useful because we can 'read' books while I'm driving :o They are favourite books that we've read over and over. She does sit with the book sometimes and 'read' it. Very cute :)

Ah, Euphemia, by school age they get most upset when you then point to a random word and ask what it says though.

Scarface Claw and Hairy McClary are good for this too - dd2 has the memory of an elephant, and swears she is 'reading'.

All good signs for loving books later, I tell myself

Very cute :) My 4 year old knows a lot of his books and corrects us when we go wrong Dd is 2 and can also "read" her book, seometimes bedtime becomes "no mummy my read it!" and I get shoved off while she recites her book and turns the pages .

DD never went through this phase at all. However, DS did this since the age of 1.5 and he still loves books at age 5. As his real reading took off, he started doing it a lot less and now he is keen to actually read the words. I found it frustrating at the time as I imagined that it would go on forever and stop his reading progress. I miss all that now and know that this was not the case.

My 3yo surprised me this morning by quoting almost verbatim a large chunk of the Lion King. It is her favourite film, and she'd watch it constantly if we let her

She can also do the book thing, with Owl Babies particularly

Children have such fantastic memories! I like to think it's because they are not clogged up with 'stuff' the way adults are.

My 2yo DD does this too. It is very sweet particularly as her pronunciation is not brilliant. She also shouts 'Gruffalo Crumble' in her sleep

Isn't it brilliant? 3yo DD 'read' The Night Before Christmas to all of her aunts/uncles/grandparents on Christmas Eve and I have to say it was better than any party trick I could come up with.

Julia Donaldson books are brilliant for it. DD likes Room On The Broom best.

Yep DS1 started this trick from just before
2 and now at 3 sits and "reads" himself most of his books, turning the pages in the right pages. It amazes me how few times they have to hear a book to be able to remember them actually.

Dd has autism so her visual memory is very strong anyway. It was very amusing to watch the folk in Waterstones agape as this tiny tot (only two but very small and in a buggy) would pull book after book from the shelves and "read" them out loud [grin}

Ah its amazing isnt it! Funny thing we have only read the book a few times at home but then again she likes to recite adverts at home, the other day she shouted out BBC.CO.UK forward slash RADIO 1!

LOL at the forward slash