Bear Feels Sick (Karma Wilson, Jane Chapman)
Children's Book Teaches About Caring
The very first book M brought home from her school’s library using her very own library card.
Love this book for the way it tells the story of caring for someone. An easy and quick read, and also a sweet and memorable one.
The Emperor’s New Clothes (Demi)
Fascinating Children's Story From China
I picked this out to share with M because this had been one of my favorite stories to listen to and tell as a child. And needless to say, M loved it to bits from the start. She loves enacting out the parts and splits her sides giggling each time we see the tailor and weaver ‘making’, ‘carrying’ or ‘displaying’ the magical clothes. She also loves the end where the little kid declares what everyone else is too embarrassed and foolish to admit. What’s not to enjoy in a story about a vain king, his foolish ministers and magical, invisible clothes?
Yes, We Can (Sam Mcbratney, Charles Fuge)
Children's Book About Individuality
An old favorite of M’s, Yes We Can is all about friends bringing out the worst and the best in each other and how the latter turns out to be way more fun. ‘Yes, we can’ is a great choice for group story times and when you’re reading to siblings or cousins who seem to be having a tough time getting along – use the book and storyline to nudge each child to say what another is really good at.
Sometimes, I Just Like to Curl Up (Vicki Churchill, Charles Fuge)
Sometimes, we just like to snuggle up and read and this is the perfect book to do just that. No thought-provoking plot or theme involved – this blah blah creation makes a happy, snuggly bed time read.
The Moon, Earth’s Satellite
Inspired by out visit to the local Observatory, M picked out this book to learn more about moon. “It’s not just white, guys, it’s actually bumpy,” she declared after one peek into the gigantinormous telescope last week and this book with its detailed illustrations and photographs of the moon has proved to be the perfect complement to that experience.
Favorite aspect: Large text and the unintimidating book dimensions – easy to hold and only 10 pages thick. Perfect for little hands and big, curious minds. Also great for beginner readers.
The Very Lonely Firefly (Eric Carle)
It has been a while since an Eric Carle book made an appearance in our book shelf. Luckily the spell was broken when The Very Lonely Firefly paid us a visit this past month. Characteristic illustrations combined with a simple story of the firefly’s search for his group, of fitting in and belonging make this book a special read. This is a great book for classroom or rainy day activities and pondering. A few that come to mind:
Name different light sources in the book & then some more…
Guess the light source: open to any page of the book and guess where the light really is from.
Make up some of your own light sources – what else could the firefly mistake to be a firefly?
How is the light from a firefly different from all those other lights?
How do you think fireflies differentiate each other?
Make a candy wrapper firefly. Better yet, cover the inside of an empty cereal box or any cardboard with candy wrapper fireflies.
