AGES:  Prereaders, beginning readers

Good candidates for this category include Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; The Little Engine That Could; Millions of Cats; Tikki Tikki Tembo; The House That Jack Built; Too Much Noise, A Fly Went By; and Mary Blooms

In many such stories, there is a growing list of items children have to remember as they recite the refrains with you. For example, in A Fly Went By, "The fly ran away, in fear of the frog, who ran from the cat, who ran from the dog" and on and on until the list includes a pig, cow, fox, man, and the poor lame sheep who started it all.