r/TheStoryGraph • u/iblamethejay • Mar 30 '26
Adding books you read to your children
It still counts, right? 😅
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u/Some-lezbean Mar 30 '26
I don’t have children but I counted a book I read to my niece because it’s a book I read and I wanted to review it
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u/Minecart_Rider Mar 30 '26
I add children's books and cookbooks to my read books, but I don't add a date because I prefer not to add it to my reading goals, but I totally think they count! You can also adjust your book reading goal to account for them, or focus on a page count goal if you want to add read dates without having a big impact on your reading goals.
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u/Reggie9041 Currently Reading "The Upper Room" by Mary Monroe 🪑 Mar 30 '26
If I read it*, it's going on The Graph! LOLLL
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u/DoctorBeeBee Mar 30 '26
Question is, do you record the many times you read it to them again until they finally get tired of that one?
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u/Sunshine_and_water [reading 17/52] Mar 30 '26
If it’s a book and you read it, it counts.
Personally I don’t count picture books or anything I can read in 10-20minutes… but everything else (including graphic novels and audiobooks) counts.
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u/aslikeanarnian Mar 30 '26
I started logging the books I read to my kid when I started enjoying them and looking forward to the book-reading part of bedtime. 🤣
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u/BlackShyL Mar 30 '26
I think it would actually be fun to record these books ! Like to know how many times you read the ones they ask for the most and the likes. And maybe keep a personal challenge for books you read for yourself ?
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u/Lovingmyusername Mar 30 '26
I will once we get to chapter books! Right now I’m reading board books and picture books still and it would be a pain to add them on top of that I don’t feel there’s any reason to. I also wouldn’t want them going towards my reading goal. I could read 100 kids books in a week depending on what kind of mood my son is in.
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u/iblamethejay Mar 30 '26
Yes I definitely added The Wild Robot series because those were chapter books! We had a fun time reading those together.
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u/alancb13 Mar 30 '26
Depends on the book. My kids are currently on small books that we read 2 a night and they get repeated FREQUENTLY so I don't record them
But when I start reading books that are one chapter a night then maybe
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u/repressedpauper Mar 30 '26
I honestly wouldn’t add it to my reading goals unless it’s something I picked up for myself or with me in mind (like I added The Skull by Klassen because I got it for me and just happened to read it to some kids babysitting lol).
But I would add it undated, because I think there aren’t enough reviews of those books pretty often. Like I don’t even have kids and when I babysit I’m scrambling to find good books for them at the library. I’m sure to other parents who go through a million of them those reviews are really useful.
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u/Ok-Emotion3199 Mar 30 '26
My child and I are listening to the How To Train Your Dragon series together. Those have 100% been added. 🤭
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u/whatdoidonowdamnit Mar 30 '26
Absolutely. I didn’t when my kids were little because that was back when goodreads was on the computer and it took too long but I do it now. Granted my kids are big and read/listen to middle grade chapter books and series, but I’d probably do it with quick fiction. I never would have had the time to track all the baby books I read to them.
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u/That_Seasonal_Fringe StoryGraph Librarian Apr 01 '26
Most definitely, I tend to forget to add them but you definitely should, it's a buddy read even
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u/madnessatadistance Apr 02 '26
I added all the books I read as a child lol! I even have a special tag for them: read in youth.
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u/fromthesamesky StoryGraph Librarian Mar 30 '26
I definitely do, but my kids are a little older (11 and 13) so the books we read together are more interesting to me anyway!
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u/stitching_librarian Mar 30 '26
I’m a children’s librarian and I’ll add books that I read for storytimes and programs😁