Book Series - Henry & Mudge

I wanted to introduce you to a book series that my 6 year old son has been loving, in case you were looking for more reality based book ideas.

A huge thanks to @bringingupbabe for the recommendation! These books are 'Henry and Mudge' by Cynthia Rylant and I first found a copy second hand on Ebay. The books were originally published around 1989, and it's nice that the themes in the stories generally seem to be still relevant today. 

He really enjoyed the book and so I went and bought the whole set of all 28 stories. They are really lovely and fun, reality based stories about a boy called Henry and his big dog Mudge, and all of the adventures they go on together. My son is 6 and on the cusp of second plane - I have avoided introducing fantasy based stories for the time being, so this series has been great to discover. This is based on Maria Montessori's philosophy where she found that learning from reality based stories and pictures is best for children while they are in the first plane of development and their brain is still forming.

I usually read one of these books to my son at bedtime but it is also easy enough for him to read himself, perhaps at a different time of day (not just before he goes to sleep!). Each book is formed of short chapters with lovely, colourfull illustrations from Suçie Stevenson. I love that our son could also read it to our 1 year old daughter as well. 

Click here for the set of 28 books we have