The Nurturing Nest Family Child Care and Preschool April 2022 Reading The following books complement topics and concepts that I will be introducing this month. Choose some books to use with your child at home. Read the books frequently to your child to encourage literacy skills. Reading to children at a young age will encourage them to become good readers themselves later on. Remember, a positive attitude toward reading is contagious! Bees Like Flowers by Rebecca Bielawski The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman One Busy Bee by Chris Lench I Am a Bee by Rebecca & James McDonald The Thing About Bees by Shabazz Larkin Are You a Bee? by Judy Allen Mae the Mayfly by Denise Brennan-Nelson Forest Friends: Bee Respectful by Leslie Falconer Insect World: Wasps by Mari Schuh Lonely Wasp by Charles Fuge The Mazzie with a Sharp Snozzie by Irina Goundortseva Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin, Jr. Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert How to Be a Butterfly by Laura Knowles An Extraordinary Ordinary Moth by Karlin Gray Butterfly Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta & Brian Cassie Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hults Aston Explore My World: Butterflies by Marfe Ferguson Delano Flora: A Botanical Pop-Up Book by Yoojin Kim