The wiki page was easy enough!
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I try to do this too actually! It makes it more fun for me :D.
This is spot on!
Yay for learning!
Also, waking up to all these comments is definitely motivating. Looking forward to reading more books today!
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I’ve been doing this for a couple of months and has helped me tremendously with onomatopoeia and katakana and with getting used to simple grammar and enforcing basic vocabulary. It’s basically, reviewing basic knowledge, without feeling that you’re reviewing anything!
I am now in the 3歳 section and many books repeat themselves in each section as you go through, so there aren’t as many as it seems,unfortunately.
I am slow so, you may catch up with me and I’ll join the challenge then 
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I’ve just finished my first few books! Like @fuzzytipsy I’m practicing reading them out loud and giving all the characters different voices lol.
It’s interesting to see little to no katakana in the 0歳 books I’ve read so far, and what katakana there is has “furigana” haha.
Other notes:
- Fully jealous of かばくん’s full 11 hours of sleep… my dude goes to bed at 8 and wakes up at 7.
- I like how everything and everyone gets a さん、くん、or ちゃん
- I learned in たべものへんしーん that “fried eggs/sunny side eggs” is 目玉焼き. Like… grilled eyeballs? It’s so amusing to me haha.
- There are apparently many gently rolling things in children’s books. ころころころ
- 真っ白（まっしろ）＝ Pure white.
Following @plantron and @gojarappe’s idea for a reading log, along with using @nbeck0212’s inputsenpai app!
Reading Log
| No. | Title | Date read | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | はじめての A・B・C | 2019-03-02 | General common items, fruits, etc. |
| 2 | かばくん いま なんじ？ | 2019-03-02 | Onomatopoeia, いちにち daily activities |
| 3 | どうぶつの おやこ | 2019-03-02 | Animals, pee & poop apparently, あまえんぼう |
| 4 | しんかんせんだいしゅう | xxxx-xx-xx | It glitched out on me, so I never got to read it ;~; |
| 5 | おつきさまのかぞえうた | 2019-03-05 | Animals, counting, toys |
| 6 | にこにこばあ | 2019-03-09 | Colors, onomatopoeia |
| 7 | たまごがあるよ | 2019-03-09 | Adjectives, (chicken and egg) onomatopoeia |
| 8 | いっこさんこ | 2019-03-09 | いっこ…さんこ…いっこ…さんこ… |
| 9 | うるしー | 2019-03-09 | うるうるうるしー |
| 10 | モイモイとキーリー | 2019-03-09 | Honestly idek… onomatopoeia and baby sounds? |
| 11 | もいもい | 2019-03-09 | もいもいもいもいもいもいもい save me |
| 12 | ぱかっ | 2019-03-17 | ぱか = the sound effect of something opening? |
| 13 | たべものへんしーん | 2019-03-17 | Food, fruits, なっちゃった = become, grow, turn to |
| 14 | パパおふろ | 2019-03-17 | もういっかい！ |
| 15 | パパのぼり | 2019-03-18 | Verbs. |
| 16 | ひよこ | 2019-03-17 | いない、いた、かくれちゃった (hiding) |
| 17 | いちご | 2019-03-17 | たべちゃう、たべちゃった。Mm… strawberries. |
| 18 | あかちゃんごえほん | 2019-03-17 | Set phrases and onomatopoeia. This was weird. |
| 19 | あかちゃんごずかん | 2019-03-17 | Pretty useful! Food, body parts, animals, あいさつ. |
| 20 | よるのこども | 2019-03-24 | めをつむってみたら (If you try to close your eyes?) |
| 21 | ANIMALS どうぶつ | 2019-03-24 | Lots of animals. Zebra is “striped horse” :') |
| 22 | ママ、あのね | 2019-03-24 | Cute book about baby animals and moms. |
| 23 | さわさわもみじ | 2019-03-24 | Onomatopoeia, blowing wind, and leaves. |
| 24 | GREETINGS | 2019-03-24 | Useful set phrases. |
| 25 | なになになあに？ | 2019-03-24 | Colors and onomatopoeia. |
| 26 | かくねんぼしましょ | 2019-03-24 | Hide and seek with food. Made me hungry :< |
| 27 | のれるかな？ | 2019-03-24 | Can we get on? Can it float? I think… |
| 28 | に～っこり | 2019-03-24 | Onomatopoeia and smiles (にっこり) |
| 29 | しーっ | 2019-03-24 | しずかにしてください！ |
| 30 | おさんぽさんぽ | 2019-03-24 | Animals, adverbs, adjectives. |
| 31 | COLORS | 2019-03-25 | Colors. だいだいいろ = orange. |
| 32 | もっといろいろばあ | 2019-03-25 | More colors. |
| 33 | くるくるなあに？ | 2019-03-25 | 乗（の）せる=give a ride |
| 34 | いろいろいちご | 2019-03-25 |
 be climbing |
| 35 | おでんわもしもし | 2019-03-25 | もしもしー？ |
| 36 | おでこぴたっ | 2019-03-25 | Animals. おでこ＝forehead. |
| 37 | おてんてんたっち | 2019-03-25 | Animals. |
| 38 | おはなつんつん | 2019-03-25 | ツンツン＝to touch? |
| 39 | かわいいね。 | 2019-03-25 | くすぐったい=ticklish. 不思議(ふしぎ）= mystery. |
| 40 | ころころとんとん | 2019-03-26 | おっこちゃた = to fall down. |
| 41 | おやすみぺンキン | 2019-03-26 | 風船（ふうせん）＝balloon. |
| 42 | いただきまーす！ | 2019-03-26 | 食べようかな？ |
| 43 | 赤ちゃん色 | 2019-03-26 | 葉っぱ（はっぱ）＝leaf. |
| 44 | 赤ちゃんことば | 2019-03-26 | 尻尾（しっぽ）＝tail (animal). |
| 45 | 赤ちゃんずかん | 2019-03-26 | ぬいぐるみ＝stuffed toy. |
| 46 | 赤ちゃんのかたち | 2019-03-27 | Colors, shapes, star, and moon. |
| 47 | いろいろばあ | 2019-03-27 | Colors. I feel like I’ve read this one before…? |
| 48 | ぴよちゃんのおともだち | 2019-03-27 | Animals and insects. Cute! |
| 49 | ぼくのいす？ | 2019-03-27 | 硬い（かたい）=hard, firm. |
| 50 | ほらそっくり | 2019-03-27 | にょっきり=sticking out. そっくり＝just like. |
| 51 | しゅっしゅぽっぽ | 2019-03-27 | 発車（はっしゃ）= departure (of a train). |
| 52 | ぽんぽんポコポコ | 2019-03-27 | ボコボコ＝hitting repeatedly? |
| 53 | つみき | 2019-03-27 | ゆらゆら＝swaying, swinging, wavering. |
| 54 | あかちゃんたいそう | 2019-03-27 | 体操（たいそう）=calisthenics. 今度＝this time. |
| 55 | おばけのアイスクリーム | 2019-03-27 | So cute!! お化け（おばけ）= ghost. |
| 56 | ハローキティはじめて | 2019-03-27 | Really useful. Animals, transport, fruit, veg, house. |
| 57 | いち、にの、さーん。 | 2019-03-27 | Lots of verbs and actions. |
| 58 | いっしょうにおめめ | 2019-03-27 | Some basic body parts. |
| 59 | いっしょうにあいうえお | 2019-03-27 | Some basic phrases. |
| 60 | レインボウながれ | 2019-03-27 | 流れ（ながれ）=flow, stream, current. |
| 61 | レインボウいのち | 2019-03-28 | Pretty book, no words. 命（いのち） |
| 62 | レインボウひかり | 2019-03-28 | 浮かぶ（うかぶ）＝to float. にも＝also. |
| 63 | レインボウかたち | 2019-03-28 | Pretty book, no words. 形（かたち) |
| 64 | レインボウきもち | 2019-03-28 | Pretty book, no words. 気持ち（きもち） |
| 65 | レインボウことば | 2019-03-28 | 言葉（ことば)=words, language. それぞれ＝each. |
| 66 | レインボウリズム | 2019-03-28 | 生きている＝alive. 悲しい(かなしい)=sad. |
| 67 | ココロのヒカリ | 2019-03-28 | バラバラ＝scattered, in pieces. ほのかに＝faintly。 |
| 68 | もにもにもに | 2019-03-28 | ぽろり＝dropping (tears, etc.), dropping off. |
| 69 | しろくまくん | 2019-03-28 | 穴（あな）=hole. 匂い(におい)=scent. 泳ぐ |
| 70 | おやすみ | 2019-03-28 | Daily life tasks and bedtime routine. |
| 71 | おはよう | 2019-03-31 | 欠伸（あくび）=yawn。 |
| 72 | りんごりんごりんご | 2019-03-31 | The strange adventures of an apple. |
| 73 | 愛蔵版ぶっぶーどらいぶ | 2019-03-31 | 消防自動車（しょうぼうじどうしゃ）＝fire truck. |
| 74 | 赤ちゃんだっだぁー | 2019-03-31 | The faces in this book disturbed me greatly… |
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Does this mean that you are able to reread the books that appear again? Or do they remain blocked since you’ve already read them?
I also have a general (potentially glaringly obvious) question. I put it under a cut in case anyone doesn’t… want to get spoiled for どうぶつのおやこ I guess? ahah
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I can’t really seem to figure out what あまえんぼう means.
Here are the contexts (sorry EhonNavi for taking screenshots):
Like is it something like “a sweet kid”? 甘い （あまい）？
“The baby is so sweet”, “it’s sweet to stick to your mother”?
Or maybe I’m going in the completely wrong direction…
Thank you in advance!
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There’s this:
“wheedling child; spoiled child (spoilt); pampered child; child who always demands attention”
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Unfortunately you can’t read them again if you’ve already read them, even if they show up in the other age group’s list :(. If you really want to re-read them again, there are… ways, but I probably can’t mention them here on the forums. If you wanna reach out via Discord (njosefbeck#1484), I’d be happy to share my methods :).
Yeah, when I’m compiling the lists for my app (link in first post), I’m actually taking out all the repeats, in order to get an accurate count for each age group. According to what I’ve gathered so far, there’s still probably over 1000 books, which is probably plenty 
. At least that’s plenty for meee! xD
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/facepalm
Totally forgot to check out Jisho first. Thank you so much Saruko! A spoiled child sounds like it would work in that context.
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I’ve added a column to the table in the second post where you can add a link to your reading log post if you want! The URL gets kind of messy due to the character encoding, so the table is going to look a little bit crazy when you’re editing - hopefully it’s not too intimidating for people. Let me know if it is, and we can figure out a different solution
Thanks!
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Hi
I will also join the challenge, though I do not know how many I can read.
And a question: Was the total number of books just changed from 76 to 75 in the second post? Is there a reason for that?
Hii yes! So originally when I did the count, there were 76. But as I’ve gone through the books, there was one (はなび ドーン) that can’t be read in full for free 
. So I’ve adjusted the total number accordingly (and updated my app).
Good question and glad you’re joining the challenge!!
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Thank you for the information
So far, it is quite fun to read. though, the book about the shinkansen ( しんかんせん だいしゅうごう) was a bit tiring to read: Too many city names and train model type numbers (or however that is called in English) 
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Fun fact I learned the other day: you can totally omit the thread title from the URL. This lets you avoid the horrendous mess of character encoding. In other words, えほんのチャレンジ：0歳 "Picture Book Challenge: Age 0" - #111 by nbeck0212 will navigate to your post just as well (quote my post to see - I can’t get it not to autolink ).
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Oh, I was just curious. Sorry if my post made it sound like I was actively looking for ways to get around the site’s limits. I understand that the one-time limit is probably because of copyrights, and I want to respect that, in whatever way the site chooses to implement it. It’s really great that they have all these books available!
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Ooo that makes the URL SO much nicer. Thanks for the tip! 
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Reading those books is really fun. But the Iast one got me a bit confused. For example, I was not able to understand most of the words in モイモイとキーリー. Probably a Lot of onomatopoeia? I am not even sure what モイモイ and キーリー mean. Did anyone who read this already understood that book well? 
Maybe it is not so much about understanding but about the colors and shapes.
Yeah, I think for those books it’s more about the colors and the shapes. There is some onomatopoeia, but I think there’s also just some random sounds that don’t mean anything. I looked up the books on Amazon JP and google translated the descriptions, and it seems like the authors were trying to use sounds that would be appealing to babies… or something. Hope this explanation is helpful! It definitely confused me too xD.
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Man, this book was weird. The oyasumi taiso was worth the read though.
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Well, good then, I was afraid we would have a lack of 祭り 
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