Our Little Reader

Lately Gavin has really been enjoying reading books. He especially likes the different sized pages in The Very Hungry Caterpillar and books with flaps. He does really well with turning the pages now, he can even turn them pretty well in magazines.

Philip has been reading to Gavin in Japanese, but lately he has been reading books that are written in English and just telling him about them in Japanese, so they read from left to right. The day after this picture was taken Philip was reading him a book in Japanese that is read from right to left, but Gavin wasn't having any of that. He kept turning the pages from left to right on his Daddy! He has learned it one way and he wants to keep it that way. We looked again at our collection of Japanese books and most of them are written the western way (probably because some of them are translated from English, others who knows why), so we need to get him some more that are the eastern way to teach him that they can be read both ways.