Same Toys, Different Continents #5:Dorling Kindersley (DK) Books
This week’s Same Toys, Different Continents (with Hsien in italics) features DK (Dorling Kindersley) books. My first exposure to these books was when my nephew was younger. We’d ask his parents for gift ideas, and they’d say, “Any of the DK books! He loves them!”
Just looking at the DK website makes me burst with happiness and desire. I want! I want! I want! It would be interesting to do a count of how many DK books we own in our respective libraries. (Next poll…once enough of you go vote in the current one showing in the sidebar to your right!)
The first of the DK books in our collection was a board book called My First Animal Book, and was a mini-version that we received as a prize in our Chick-fil-a Kid’s Meal a few years back. The second is a large board book called My World: A first look at the world. The kids love all the photos, and DK packs lots of details into each page. The kids never bore with all of the illustrations and photos that spark tons of questions.
What I really love about DK books is that they use vivid photographs of real life objects. The details shine through and the way they are organized on a page is orderly but also busy and lively.
From the library, we checked out DK Children’s Cookbook and were able to try a couple of the recipes. The kids loved the pancakes (though we had to at least double the recipe for the appetites of my little piggies!), and the photos (or illustrations, I forget now) with the ingredients made it fun for my daughter to help prepare.
We can’t wait until we’re past the ages of tearing up regular books so that we can check out all of the big kid versions of DK books!
It’s never too early to start them on DK Readers. Our favorites are DK Readers: Spacebusters (Level 3: Reading Alone) and Star Wars Star Pilot.
(Sidenote: As I’m writing this, my 2yr old is sitting next to me, pointing at the picture of the book saying, “What that baby’s name, mom? What that baby’s name?” I finally told him “Johnny” so he’d stop asking. So then he said, “Yep. That’s right. That’s Johnny’s ball there.”)
(Here’s my sidenote: DK books are also popular in Vietnam! (We lived there from 2004-Jan 2006.) The bookstores sell counterfeit copies (on inferior paper) of the children’s books and inserted Vietnamese words along with the English.)
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