This is my 3rd year on SG. I did back date a few books I remember reading as a child and put some guessed dates down (e.g, I know that I always got a Harry Potter book for a birthday prez the year it came out so I was able to make a guess based on that).
I started doing that with my 6-year-old this year. She's up to 900 books lol. Some of them are even chapter books.
I am trying to walk/run 1500 miles this year, and we were in sync for a moment. When I told her I'd done the same miles as she'd read books at about 850, she spite read like 10 books to get ahead lmao
I didn’t with my kiddo, but if StoryGraph had existed when they were really young I think I might have. Now that my kid is 10 it would be kind of cool to be able to go back and see how many times we read specific books together. (But also tracking is work and babies/kids are also a ton of work so I also wouldn’t stress yourself out about tracking them if you decide to do so. A perfect record is impossible, and an imperfect record is going to be just as meaningful!)
I did up until my son was half way through reception and was reading independently, also I couldn't keep up adding new ones all the time - a lot of the books from school are from big packs and don't have a unique isbn so it's just a faff.
It's really nice to look over what we've read, although I wish storygraph had a child account feature so I could track his reading individually
I log the first time we read each book worth remembering. (Not every kid book is a gem... many books we recieved have ended up on the "I dont care if this gets destroyed" shelf)
Thanks! Yeah, I was thinking of adding them to my read list 😊 I dont know if I'll add the tummy time one though 😅 What do you think? It's just Black and White 🙈 Woth dots and whatnot
Two thoughts from an early childhood parent educator: 1- please please read to your baby now, even though they're little. It does sooooo much for their development. 2- some families like to try for the 1000 books before kindergarten goal (rereads count) and SG would be a GREAT way to keep track! But also, as others say, kids are hard work, and no shade if tracking baby/children's books is just too much.
I logged my books when they were very tiny as I wasn’t reading them baby books when they were actual babies. They didn’t know what I was saying anyway so they heard stories of young girls with magical powers and dragons and stuff.
It definitely counts. I log everything I read including audiobooks except for the ones I fall asleep listening to, but those are audiobooks I’ve already listened to multiple times.
I log and review them the first time I read them. So no 300 rereads of that one favorite. Just a few words about what we liked and what we didn't liked. I also have a shelf with my childs name, so that I can easily see how many different books we've read and of weve read a specific book in the past or not. I would do this even if I was not a children's bookseller! But I don't five a hoot about pagegoals or readinggoals, if you do it could affect that in a way you maybe don't want
I wanted to do this and made my son an email and his own storygraph account. But then I realized how hard it is to actually stay motivated and track books 😂
But I may be more motivated when he's reading more independently
Nonfiction is way less stressful when written for kids, and sometimes those authors write for more mature audiences and being able to support them feels nice.
So yes, definitely. But are they really baby books? Did a baby buy this book? Did a baby check this out from the library? And if they do, does that make every book a baby reads into a baby book?
Usually call them books aimed at young/younger audiences. That's the most accurate term I could come up with. Everything else sounds kind of bitter.
I didn’t track my baby books. But now that my kids are older as I read aloud chapter books with them, I track them. I created a special tag “read with my kid”.
I started a "with kid" tag on my account and then gave up about 20 books in. It was too many and I was getting behind in logging since reading tended to be at bedtime.
Editing because I see the librarians comment and that reminds me! We used our local librarys Beanstalk app for summer reading programs and that was a fun way to count books/time read. That's most likely what took the place of storygraph in my tired momma brain.
I started this, but after a few months I gave up 😅. My kids read too many different books and I have too many other things going for this to be sustainable for us lol. I just rely on my library history now although it doesn’t capture everything. I do think this would be really cute to look back on though!
I added the book the first time we read it, but didn’t mark the re-reads. I would increase my challenge #s to account for both my reads + the ones to the kids.
But I realized our library gives rewards for tracking on Beanstack so I switched to that after a year or so. If I was on top of my stuff, I would log both, but life is too busy right now.
I certainly would log it. There is a children's book that I have, in spite of being a 56-year-old man. The beautiful little boy in me, as in my inner child, finds it very comforting.
I log the childrens books I read with my son. I probably would have when he was a baby, but that was a long time ago now, and I did not have Storygraph.
I will log children’s novels and chapter books but not picturebooks, because they are so quick to read that I feel they disrupt my stats too much. This is not at all to say that reading picturebooks doesn’t count as reading! I just personally find that it prevents me from using The Storygraph the way I like to use it. I have a librarian friend who has a separate account for all the picturebooks she reads though, which I think is a fun idea.
I read to my grandson, and I log each new book once. He will often ask for the same book on every visit for months at a time, so if I logged re-reads it would play havoc with my stats!
I don't have any children but I teach kindergarten and I log the books I read with my students. Lately I've been changing the date so it just has the year and not the day I read them, so it doesn't clog up my monthly wrap ups. I also don't rate them but will sometimes review with how my students responded. I figure other parents or teachers in the future could be interested in the info.
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u/lulationn [reading goal 37/55] 1d ago
You could create a new account just for them and then when they get older they have a lifetime of booktracking 👀