What We've Been Reading

A couple of non-fiction reads on some people of interest recently.

Pumpkin love!  Pumpkin Trouble was a big favorite.

Two more BIG favorites.  No Sleep for the Sheep! went immediately on our purchase list.  (It's going to be an Advent countdown book.)  Lots of repetition that the kids LOVED participating in.  They practically had the book memorized and we got very into being enthusiastic with reading the sing-songy rhymes.  Back to Front and Upside Down! was a good one about learning new skills and not being afraid to ask for help... but it wasn't my favorite. 

Loved the illustrations in this one.  A cozy book of giving thanks.

I love that Will recognized that Dog Loves Drawing is a lot like Harold and the Purple Crayon and that Sophie pointed out that Silly Doggy! is a lot like Peanut.  So exciting that they're making correlations like that.

The kindergarten book was just weird.  Specifically the mom character in the book.  But Llama Llama was reliably good.

Mo Willems is outstanding.  Always.  We love the Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs book.  And Where's My T-R-U-C-K? was cute too.

The sneeze book wasn't all that memorable, but the honesty book was a good moral-of-the-story read.

 

The kids have a new-found love for Fly Guy.  :)

I heart Cynthia Rylant. 

I'm Not Sleepy - another on the purchase list and Advent countdown.  It's silly and adorable.  We also love Little Critter books, but moreso just to borrow.

Yay, Christmas!  We're kicking off the season with the coolest cat and cutest llama around.  Love them!

A Scholastic book list find.  Very cool.  Kids loved it... aaand so we added it to the Advent list.

Here are some sample pages:

Can you see the tree frog hiding on the bark?

How about the yellow spider hiding on the flower petals?

If I could go back in time, I would definitely want to live in the Little House on the Prairie days.  These books just warm my soul.  I LOVE them.  And so, now, does Sophie.  We've borrowed many of these in the past for Will, but Sophie is new to them and she's falling in love with Laura and her family, just like Will and me.