What to read to your child before bedtime

The best thing to do with your child before bed is reading books. This procedure will help develop imagination and tune in a positive way. The children's nervous system has such a feature - for beautiful and positive dreams, you need to read something kind and interesting. Precisely to read, because cartoons, on the contrary, excite the nervous system and it will be more difficult to fall asleep. This article will highlight some of the best books for children.

Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all

A collection of wonderful children's stories about Winnie the Pooh and his friends. Author - Alan Milne, translated by B. Zakhoder. There is hardly a single adult who has never heard of Winnie the Pooh.

Winnie is a chubby sweet-tooth bear. More than anything, he loves honey and compose funny poems and songs. He has many friends and together they constantly find themselves in difficult situations in which only friendship, the ability to act together and a great love of adventure help out.

This book is well suited for toddlers from 2 years old. It is good to learn animals from pictures, and funny rhymes will help your kid learn new words and start talking faster. Overall, reading books is a great way to enrich your vocabulary. For those kids who already know how to read, this is a great way to memorize how certain words are spelled in a playful way. It is very important to vaccinate love of books since the early childhood.

For older children, this book will become a reliable friend who teaches them to value friendship and be kind. Winnie the Pooh will tell children about the correct moral values ​​and help to cultivate only positive qualities in themselves. Will become an example of optimism and explain how to be friends with everyone.

The Wizard of Oz

A wonderful series of books written by A. Volkov based on the American book about the adventures of Dorothy and her friends. Little girl Ellie lives in Kansas with her mom, dad and dog Totoshka. This is the most ordinary happy family that lives the usual life of farmers. But a hurricane that came from nowhere suddenly carries away the house, along with Ellie and Totoshka. From this begins Ellie's adventures in a magical land, where she will meet many good friends and strong evil wizards. Remarkably, Ellie will return to the magical land more than once. More adventures are useful for imagination, it is always interesting to watch your favorite characters. You can speculate about what will happen to the characters in the next book. Plus, it will save you from the so-called "book hangover". This term means the state when the book is over, but there is still a desire to read more and more about your favorite heroes.

A series of these books will help children learn to be brave, not get lost in difficult situations and think outside the box. The main value of these works is friendship, help to friends. They will also show the kids clearly that no matter how weak, united, you can defeat any enemy.

Peter Pan

A story about the magical land of Neverland and a child who did not grow up. Peter is a boy who can fly, makes friends with fairies and Indians, fights with pirates. Peter is an absolute child - selfish, capricious, eccentric. But at the same time he is a good friend and loyal comrade.

This book will tell children about Peter's wonderful adventures, will reveal the world of his mischief. Explain that not all pranks can go unpunished, jokes can offend someone. With all the desire he does not become an adult, Pen still has to learn to be responsible and think ahead. The book to teach friendships will show that for a strong friendship you need to be able to find a compromise and act in the interests of a friend.

Also in this book is the image of Wendy, a girl who also loves adventure. Only, unlike Peter, she realizes the consequences of her actions and loves her family very much. Using Wendy's example, the baby will learn to understand family values.

Plus, this book will introduce the child to the peculiarities of British literature. Will tell about the life of the British and their peculiar national character.

Tales of the Hedgehog and the Bear

It is this book that has a large number of fans, whose age has long ceased to be childish. Tales of the Hedgehog is an amazing collection of stories that immerse you in the atmosphere of childhood, carelessness and kindness. At the same time, many philosophical questions are raised. The book is an ideal guide to friendship, how to be friends tightly and forever.

The print edition is a collection of short stories that are good for kids to read. After all, small children cannot concentrate for a long time. Plus, all the stories are absolutely kind and positive.

Great for developing imagination and dreaming before bed. Some of the names of fairy tales are worth something - "like a hedgehog and a bear cub went to wipe the stars", "Bear cub and wonderful clouds."

Peppy Long Stocking

This is a collection of stories about a 9 year old redhead girl. Who lives alone in the "Chicken" villa. Peppy has a bunch of freckles, huge shoes and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson. And this girl also has the brightest and most endless fantasy. She is constantly invents cute stories that make everyone laugh. Although everyone understands that it's just fantasy.

Despite the fact that Pippi lives without parents, this is an amazingly kind and sincere girl. She knows how to cook and has a real horse that lives on the terrace. By the way, Peppy has remarkable physical strength. She was able to carry the chest of gold on her outstretched arms and overcame the circus strongman.

This girl is a kind of symbol of justice, such a super-hero for children. She rescued the kids from the burning house, punished the bully who made a mess in the sausage shop, punished Freken, who gave gifts only to those who, in her opinion, were good.

In the middle of the book, her dad, a navigator, comes to see the girl. He took Peppy and her friends, Anika and Tommy, to the Land of Fun. Of course, with the consent of the children’s mother. In this wonderful country, friends have experienced many different adventures. They got pearls from the bottom of the ocean and even managed to deal with evil pirates.

This book will be a great example of kindness, justice and true friendship. Will teach you never to lose heart and believe in good.

After the baby loves a certain book, it will be possible to play with him in different games. For example, a puppet theater with characters from a book. Or charging to the songs from the cartoon based on your favorite work.

The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen's Tales is just a handbook for an adventure lover and beautiful stories. His fairy tales are distinguished by a simple, and at the same time, amazing magical style. Although sadness is also present in his works. There is an opinion that this is correct. A completely carefree life is only in fiction, and the works of Hans Christian, although they have a strong miraculous background, are as close to life as possible. And the wealth of his fantasy can only be marveled at. In this collection, anyone will find a fairy tale to their liking, be it the Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, or about Niels and the geese.

The abundance of bright characters will surely please the child. In Hans's tales, there is a talking mole, and a bunch of magical creatures - fairies, elves, sorceresses, animated figures of a shepherdess and a chimney sweep, and many others.

Andersen's tales teach kindness, fairness, and empathy. He also explains that any good will sooner or later be rewarded. Exactly like evil. Retribution will come to anyone and you need to carefully weigh and think about your deeds... Also, his works say that miracles are found at every step. You just need to believe and be able to notice them.

Thousand and One Nights

The collection of fairy tales "A Thousand and One Nights" is an amazing monument of Arab culture. They have everything - meanness, treachery, glorious battles for beautiful girls, the triumph of justice, love, genies, Aladdin and a bunch of different other adventures.

However, this is not a collection of fairy tales for children. No matter how hard the translators try to smooth out some intimate details or, for reasons of censorship, omit some points, children should not read such literature. If you really want to acquaint your child with the culture of the Ancient East, we recommend retelling it yourself, altering the dirty moments in your own way.

Mary Poppins

This book teaches children the right behavior. If other works, such as Peppy and Peter Pan, teach children by bad example, then this book did not use any complex psychological techniques. It's all straight.

The work tells about the life of ordinary English children and their nanny. Which does not just play with the guys, but teaches them to recognize good and evil, believe in miracles and not be afraid of change. Mary Popins is not the kind of lady to chew and put in her mouth. She teaches children by example, forcing them to think, understand and act independently.

This is a kind, albeit sad fairy tale, in which pure childhood dreams - miracles and love - come true. By the way, adults will also find there a lot of instructive things for themselves. For example, how to find a common language with a child.

The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio

The most famous story about a wooden boy who was very fond of adventure. Pope Pinocchio was very poor, they lived in a closet. But at the same time, dad did everything so that his son was not worse than other children - he went to school, read books. And a good part of Buratino's adventures is connected with the desire to get rich. So that his dad doesn't have to work hard anymore. However, on the way to riches, the boy meets other treasure hunters. Who would not mind fooling a naive boy. This book teaches you to distinguish between what is good and what is bad. He will also explain clearly that not all people are good and you should not trust everyone.

Living hat. Stories

If earlier in this article we were talking about all kinds of miracles and magic, then this story is completely ordinary. There are no talking animals or flying boys in it. It's about ordinary life miracles and how fantasy helps turn the most ordinary event into an incredible adventure.

This is a collection of simple and easy stories about the life of the most ordinary children. About how pranks lead to consequences, for example, Patch's story, and how to fix their consequences.

Just a positive compilation for the rest of the soul. It develops imagination and a sense of humor well. The Living Hat story teaches you not to succumb to fear. It is necessary to analyze the situation and then it will not be scary at all.

Deniskin stories

An excellent collection dedicated to the life of an ordinary Soviet schoolchild, who has some funny events every day. Then Deniska helps to paint the door and accidentally paints over the suit of his neighbor and the girl Alenka, on the other day he wants to weigh exactly 25 kg in order to subscribe to the best magazine of Soviet schoolchildren "Murzilka" and for this he drinks a whole bottle of citro. Deniska will even visit the circus dome and put forward an interesting rational proposal for washing dishes. In general, Deniska's life is so rich that it is better to read about it yourself.

A light book about a carefree childhood, with ordinary children's pranks. A very kind and naive book, it will show the kid what kind of childhood his parents had. When no one heard about computers, cable TV and wi-fi. And about boredom no one knew at that time either.

The book will teach you to be friends, help and empathize. It will also clearly show what should not be done out of adult fools - the story is porridge. "Everything secret becomes clear" is the immortal phrase of Deniska's mother, which shows that sooner or later everything hidden will become known. And retribution will overtake anyone, it may not immediately, but it will overtake. Therefore, you need to carefully consider your actions and talk about your feelings.

Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The book tells about a boy named Tom Sawyer and his friend, Heckelberifin. How they play pranks together and receive punishment for their pranks. The guys are very brave and resourceful. Using their example, the kid learns never to be discouraged, but to try to find a way out. After all, he is in any situation.

Just a guide to friendship. The book demonstrates that if you have a true loyal friend, you can handle any problem. Anything can be overcome by having a strong shoulder of a friend by your side.