I know you shouldn't compare your kids but it's hard not to do. Charlotte started sitting through books fairly early. Henry, on the other hand, figured out how to crawl and then didn't want to sit still. He would get his cuddle and then he was off. You can imagine what this does to a crazy, Asian mother. Alarms started going off in my head. What if he doesn't like books? What if he grows up to be someone who doesn't like to read for fun??

Fortunately, I married someone who just laughs at my crazy instead of being bothered by it. Luke tried to interest him in books about trucks, dogs, the usual things that boys like. Nope. Books with photographs instead of illustrations. Nope. Then he tried books that have different textures. That did it! He was hooked!
 
At first, he only wanted books with different textures. Fuzzy bunny books, furry puppies, shiney, scaley fish. Fortunately, we had some of those but this one is different and probably my favorite.

It's by Xavier Deneux and he has several other books like this one. What's so clever about these is that each page has a cutout that fits into the facing page. I had originally gotten this for Charlotte since she had recently learned to count to 10. It seemed like a fun way to practice counting with her. Turns out, it's a fun book for her younger brother to explore too.