Library Books We Love, April 2016
- Big Bear, Little Chair—The pictures here are so graphic and cool. And we use this book to start discussions about what is big and little in our world...
- The Find-It Book—Each page has new things to find and also things from previous pages. I love books like this that can be read quickly or stretched into half an hour...
- Interstellar Cinderella—A Cinderella who wants to be a mechanic. Her dreams come true in a cool way...love this pictures in this one as well...
- Where's Walrus and Penguin?—Best read after Where's Walrus? A great sequel...
- Mummy Cat—A current favorite that keeps getting re-checked out, about a cat and her queen owner, whom she misses...
- Cock-a-doodle Do-bop—A chicken who doesn't want to do cockadoodledoo any longer...
- Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?—Different artists provide different answers...
- I Dreamt I Was a Dinosaur—This is where the famed "sparkle-cano" (a volcano made of sparkles) was found...
- Swap!—Great pictures and a cool story about how a button turned into everything needed for a new boat...
- The Wolf-Birds—An un-sugar-coated story about life and death in the wild, but done in a really beautiful way...love the illustrations here too...
- Rude Cakes—Another favorite these days, so funny and original...
- Cockatoo, Too—Cute pictures and great tricks with language, which I love and makes the kids laugh...
- Oskar and the Eight Blessings—Oh, I love this story about a boy who loses his parents in WW II and gets sent alone to America...his father says people can be good you just have to look for it and so many touching and good things happen to this boy...we've been reading this and talking about blessings in our own lives...love...
XOXO
