It’s kinderboekenweek – my favourite books for Montessori children

This week is Kinderboekenweek (children’s book week)! Did you celebrate book week when you were a kid? I definitely remember book week from my school days growing up in the suburbs of Sydney.

With my own kids I’ve made a ritual each year of going to the book store during book week and the children choose one Dutch book each. You also get a free book during book week which is always a fun little extra. They also have a book week picture book for €5 for younger children. It’s a nice change from ordering online, and the kids are curled up with their new books for about a day before they are already finished.

So in honour of book week, I thought it would be fun to make a list of some of my old favourite books for Montessori children of different ages. There are so many to choose from, but these ones are always popular in class or I read them over and over with my kids.

Under 1 year

•Baby’s very first black and white book, Going Out

•Dear Zoo

•The Very Hungry Caterpillar

•Time for Bed by Mem Fox

•That’s not my train

1 – 2 year olds

•My first word lift the flap board book

•Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy

•Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter by Gerda Muller

•We’re going on a bear hunt

•Rosie’s walk

2 – 3 year olds

•Sunshine or Moonlight

•Lift-the-flap counting book

•Fred the firefighter

•De gele ballon

•The big book of machines

3+ years

•Rosie’s hat

•The Little Red train

•The Waterhole

•The Cow who Fell in the Canal

•Montessori Number Work/Montessori Letter Work

I would love to hear your favourites too. Let’s start a post over on our Facebook page so we can share all of the wonderful children’s books out there.