It’s Children’s Book Week!

Thanks to Nari over at The Novel World, I realized that the week of May 11-17 is Children’s Book Week, courtesy of the Children’s Book Council. In a quote from their website: “Since 1919, Children’s Book Week has been celebrated nationally in schools, libraries, bookstores, clubs, private homes-any place where there are children and books. [...]

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Bedtime Book: Opposites

Read Sunday Night Opposites by Sandra Boynton I liked this book a lot. A very simple book showing opposites and the words. Hot and Cold, Wet and Dry, etc. The art style is really fun to me, and who doesn’t love reading a book full of cool animals. Giraffes, elephants, bunnies, they all make the [...]

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Bedtime Book: My Very First Book of Shapes

Read Friday Night My Very First Book of Shapes by Eric Carle Imagine me heaving a big sigh right here. This is a cute book. But this is not a good “story time” book. There isn’t really a story, more of a matching game. And the book is constructed very awkwardly. It’s split into two [...]

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Bedtime Book: The Eleventh Hour

Read Friday Night The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base Oh Graeme Base, with your intricate pictures and interesting stories. We’ve ended up with several of your books, and that’s a good thing. But I get so distracted by the pictures that reading them for Water Boy takes twice as long as necessary! In The Eleventh [...]

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Bedtime Book: Tuesday

Read Thursday Night Tuesday by David Wiesner This a great book for using your storytelling skills. The only words it contains are those telling you what time of the night it is. Everything else is expressed through beautiful pictures depicting, of all things, flying frogs. Or should I say, levitating? They float around on their [...]

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