Your 6-year-old now Now We Are Six is a book of children's
poetry by A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh. The title
alone makes it a fun book to have on your birthday child's
shelf. But this kind of book illustrates some other interesting
points about 6-year-olds: - Sixes love poems because of the word
play and repetition. - They also enjoy nonsense words and
onomatopoeia (words that sound like the thing they describe,
such as "hiss" or "buzz"). - Kids this age are working to
understand more about what "big people" do -- discoveries that
make them feel both confident and confused. The poems reflect a
child's increasingly complex world. - Sixes have vivid
imaginations. The characters in such poems include knights,
teddy bears, and all kinds of fanciful creatures and situations.
The familiar inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood are also here.
Children this age cling to the comfortingly familiar as well as
looking eagerly to new things. - Six-year-olds still love being
read to, even as they begin to maste