Yeah love it but super torn on the Giving Tree. I'll ad 'The Little Prince' as one my kids liked. But separate from reading books spend time telling stories a

Yeah love it but super torn on the Giving Tree. I'll ad 'The Little Prince' as one my kids liked. But separate from reading books spend time telling stories about a character you make up with your child. Get them to love story telling and being creative. For my family it was 'A pig named Nelson' who did things like wear his halloween costume to school and accidentally get mistaken as a super hero when things went down, or who loved spaghetti and ate and ate until he threw up so much it flooded the whole house. The best was when my kids were adamant things go the nice happy way where Nelson didn't get into trouble, but nope, my story had him start to go the other way and my kids could see what was coming and would bury their heads under the pillows. You can also slip upcoming things into the stories so that the kids can prepare for them (low key non-preachy parenting in advance).