This is a super cute book that shows various animals with their parents and how the parents “carry” their babies from place to place. Little ones will love this book because it has animal babies in it and it rhymes. (You know how much I love rhyming books.) Parents will love this book because it is so sweet, the illustrations are fantastic and the book has a wonderful ending.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this magazine! We have outgrown it at our house, but I would HIGHLY recommend it if you have a child between the ages of 2 and 5, I would suggest you get a subscription ASAP. It has poems, hidden picture puzzles, short stories (both fiction and non-fiction), finger plays, riddles, simple crafts and recipes, and my boys’ favorite feature, Silly Pictures. (A picture with things happening in it that shouldn’t be happening…like a dinner scene with a dog and a cat sitting at the table, a woman wearing earmuffs at the table, etc.)
A little girl imagines what her garden would be like if she had her own garden. She would have jelly bean bushes, she would be able to change the colors of the flowers just by thinking about it, there would be no weeds and all the rabbits in the garden would be chocolate rabbits.
This is a cute rhyming book about the seasons a garden goes through starting with planting in the spring, things growing and getting picked in the summer, harvesting pumpkins in the fall and the blanket of snow covering the garden in the winter.
This is SUCH a great book…so much vocabulary and pictures to discuss. It is a non-fiction text with a short sentence or two on each page with great pictures that accompany the pics. Some of the great words that you might want to discuss with your child include: annual, perennial, bulb and tuber. We have had a family garden almost every year for the past five or six years, so this would be a great book for us to read to help us to learn even more. Don’t have a garden? This book might make you want to have one. 🙂
We are smack in the middle of baseball season around here, so it didn’t surprise me when I saw that our youngest had totally ransacked the baseball section of the library shelves. This was my absolute favorite of the bunch. The illustrations are adorable and the story is interlaced with baseball facts. Super cute and fun to read!
Even though Easter was yesterday, it’s still the Easter season and a great time to continue to read Easter stories. (Especially since all the Easter books at the library will be available again.) 🙂 This rhyming story takes readers from Mary discovering Jesus’ empty tomb and ends with Thomas touching Jesus’ wounds. This book may not be available at the library, but this and many other great books are available at Arch Books.
Several years ago our church had a flier available for parents if they were interested in purchasing books for their kids. It was just like a book order your child might bring home from school, but it was for religious books. I ordered a few about Easter since it was that time of year. This one starts with Jesus praying in the garden and ends with them placing him in the tomb. I have read this to my own children again and again and have used it in my first grade Sunday school class as well. They love that it rhymes and I love that it tells the story in a way that engages the children.
First of all, let me just say that I have loved every book I have ever read to my kids by P.K. Hallinan. This one is no exception. I like this book because it combines the family traditions of Easter that many families probably participate in like Easter baskets, Easter egg hunts and family dinners along with dressing up in special clothes, going to church and praying. If you have been reading MommaReads long enough, you also know I am a sucker for a book that has a good rhyme as well.
This book is not just about Easter, it’s about the whole journey…his whole life. The books starts with his birth and concludes with his ascension. I like the illustrations in this book, as well as the story, of course. There is also an element to this book that makes it a fun one for families to read together, too. It has a repeating phrase, “journey, journey on” that pops up again and again. Children love books like this because, even though they may not be able to read, once they have heard the story they know there’s a repeating part and they can participate. Just stop reading when you get to that part and your child will know to chime in with the missing words.
