Book Thoughts: Lentil (McCloskey)
Type: picture bookAges: 4-8Author: Robert McCloskey This book will be funnier to kids who have ever tried eating a lemon. 🙂 Enjoyable book!
Keenly Kept
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Book Thoughts: There’s an Alligator Under My Bed (Mayer)
Type: picture bookAges: 4-8Author: Mercer Mayer A subjective opinion here, but if kids aren’t read books like these (or don’t pick up the idea elsewhere), then they’re not going to have the issue of fearing monsters at bedtime. I realize…
Book Thoughts: Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth (Bate)
Type: picture bookAges: 3-7Author: Lucy BateIllustrator: Diane deGroat If your family “does” the tooth fairy, you might appreciate this little story. On the flip side, if you don’t play the game and your children know it’s just pretend, the story…
Book Thoughts: Big Snow (Bean)
Type: picture bookAges: 3-7Author: Jonathan Bean I have really liked a few other books by this author, so don’t take this as a disapproval of all his works…it just fell short for me. The child, though–yes–so excited, was out of…
Book Thoughts: The Story of Babar (de Brunhoff)
Type: picture bookAges: 5-8Author: Jean de Brunhoff * This occurs very early in the story. It’s brief but a bit heavy since readers have newly fallen in love with the fun baby elephant in the first two pages. ** Readers…
Book Thoughts: Trombone Shorty (Andrews)
Type: biographical picture bookAges: 4-10Author: Troy “Trombone Shorty” AndrewsIllustrator: Bryan Collier This biography was recommended to me without commentary, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Very enjoyable! As a mom, I appreciated his mentioning how hard he had to…
Book Thoughts: Pancakes, Pancakes! (Carle)
Type: picture bookAges: 2-7Author: Eric Carle Most kids nowadays won’t need to cut into their field of wheat and take it to the miller to be ground up, but it is good for kids to see where things come from.…
Book Thoughts: The Abandoned Lighthouse (Lamb)
Type: picture bookAges: 3-7Author: Albert LambIllustrator: David McPhail One of the first descriptive words that came to mind when reading this was “far-fetched.” Ha! But books don’t always need to reflect reality. Parents reading the book will wonder where the…
Book Thoughts: Old Ramon (Schaefer)
Type: chapter bookAges: 8-12Author: Jack SchaeferIllustrator: Harold West The boy absolutely loves learning from books, so his father sends him out with a trustworthy and faithful shepherd to learn things books cannot teach. It’s set in the Mojave Desert and…
Book Thoughts: Lepunia: Kingdom of the Gallopers (Ford)
Type: chapter bookAges: 8-12Author: Kevin T. FordIllustrator: Michael Genova This debut novel of Ford’s was outstanding. It’s still hard for me to believe it’s his first published book! The story has a steady theme of good vs. bad as well…