My grandkids, age 2 years + 1 month - bring ME books to read every night before going to sleep when I babysit.
Making Dinosaurs growl, finding trees, counting plants, counting cars, finding balls, seeing birds fly, tracing triangles, ....
Makes fun night for the twins.
I hope you also do different voices for different characters. Isn’t it joyful being around the babies and watching them discover things that used to seem mundane?
I have hung onto some of the books that we read to our kids (including twins!)
Goodnight Moon
Cars and Trucks and Things that Go (by Richard Scarry?) A favorite of my sons.
Caps for Sale
Make Way for Ducklings
And many more that I have now forgotten - but all were a pleasure to read. Plus - I would make up stories that would drag on for months and months adding in new characters (with the kid’s help), and the kids would remind me of what had happened earlier in the story.
“So, now who was on the raft in the raging river when we left it hung up on the rock?”
“Bigfoot, Godzilla, a raccoon family, a kangaroo, Spiderman and Robin.” (I think in that episode Superman and Batman came to their rescue!).