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I had an iPod shuffle that Roy commandeered, and then which the Taz  
took from him for the long trips back and forth when we were house  
hunting/moving. It's been the best way to have great kid literature in  
the car, ( I love books on tape, even kid books, and driving through  
PA it's books on tape or religious nuttery on FM. It's especially nice  
when she can follow along with a book in hand.  Roy was worried about  
her ears with normal head phones, so I figured out how to set the  
volume control to just so much and no more, and he found her some kind  
of special ear jobbies.

The shuffle is a lot tougher than regular iPods, etc, and it's been a  
nice boon.

She doesn't use it much in the house, because whatever she's listening  
to, we generally listen to it together, so I put it on the network and  
we can hear it any place, that's nice because sometimes she still  
needs help with vocabulary.




On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Lynda wrote:

> Youngest had a whole set of books with the books on tape that she just
> loved.  They were all the old native tales.  She had her own little  
> pink
> Walkman and headphones and she'd get up in the morning before  
> everyone else
> and head into the familyroom and grab her Walkman and then go  
> through the
> books and tapes. She had quilt she'd drag along and that's where  
> we'd find
> her and the cat every morning.  She loved to listen to the stories and
> "read" along in the books.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <paxamicus AT earthlink.net>
>
>
> > Oh good catch...I am almost tempted to save those tell she's old
> > enough to read them on her own, they are so simple and told from such
> > an easy viewpoint...
> >
> > I'll look for old ones with good pics.
> >
> > I do read poetry to her but I find to keep her interest, it needs to
> > be really evocative. Shel Silverstein works.
> >
> > Graeme Bass is fun.  We made friends with the Kirks recently, he
> > writes the Miss Spider series, they are fun to read but she's getting
> > too old for them.
>
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