reading level

[cimorene]

I am far too used to children of above average verbal intelligence. I can never guess in advance when the daycare kids're too young for a book because it seems to ME that a one-year-old could sit through and understand What Do You Say, Dear? - it's only, what, like, 20 sentences! But I tried to read it to a four-year-old today who couldn't stay still all the way through an explanation of what "How do you do?" means. The class in general, with a couple of exceptions, like, don't want to be read to, only to look at the pictures and move on! o_O They're BABY PLEBES!