More, Please!
More, Please!
by ReadRead · 90 sec“More soup, please!” Slurp! The soup is gone. A very first book for very new readers: one short sentence on every page, and the picture always shows the word.
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Leo and his Grandma make dumplings in her warm kitchen. “More dumplings, please!” says Leo, and Grandma puts more on his plate. Yum! The dumplings are gone. Then comes more soup (slurp, gone!), more noodles (yum, gone!) and a big “Thank you, Grandma!” hug. Your child feeds Leo the orange slices one by one, and at the end Mimi the cat asks for more too.
The new words in this book
A little extra, some again. It comes up 5 times, and every time the page really gets more: dumplings hop onto Leo’s plate, Grandma fills the bowl with soup and then noodles, orange slices pile up, and Mimi gets a dumpling too.
Not there any more, all eaten up. It comes up 5 times: the dumplings go into Leo’s mouth one by one, he slurps the soup and the noodles until the bowl is empty, the whole table is empty, and the oranges are gone.
Made for children just starting kindergarten. Each page has one short sentence (3 to 6 words) in one pattern that goes back and forth: “More soup, please!” / “Slurp! The soup is gone.” Only the food changes, so a child can say the page with you by the third spread, and it is the same thing they say at their own table. Every other word is one a 4-year-old already knows, like soup, noodles, yum, please and thank you.
Questions to ask while you read
Pause after each spread and ask one question. There are no right answers; the point is to get your child talking.
- 1What are Leo and Grandma making?
- 2Can you say it like Leo: “More, please!”
- 3Where did the dumplings go? Is the plate empty?
- 4What is Grandma putting in the bowl?
- 5Slurp! Is the soup still there, or is it gone?
- 6What does Leo want now?
- 7Are the noodles gone? Rub your tummy like Leo!
- 8What do we say to Grandma?
- 9Tap an orange. Yum! How many are left?
- 10Who wants more at the end? What does Mimi say?
How hard is this book?
About 50 words, one short sentence at a time, one pattern that repeats.
- Dialogue × 4“More soup, please!”
- Questions × 1Tap! More oranges?
- Bigger / biggest × 5Tap! More oranges?
All 21 words, most used first
gone 5 · more 5 · yum 4 · dumplings 3 · please 3 · the 3 · all 2 · are 2 · noodles 2 · soup 2 · and · is · make · meow · oranges · slurp · tap · thank · too · wants · you
Names don’t count: the picture shows who it is.
Tips for parents
- First time: use Read to me and just enjoy the pictures together. It takes about a minute and a half.
- At dinner, play the book: “More rice, please!” and “All gone!” when the bowl is empty.
- Read it again and pause before the last word of each page, so your child can say “please” or “gone”.
- On the orange page, let your child say “Yum!” for each slice and “All gone!” at the end.