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Dec. 1, 2006
Books Read 11/29-12/5
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long- A splendid pirate adventure with plenty of opportunities for using my best pirate accent, always a plus. Also my 5 year-old said, "I really like that pirate book, Mommy," the day after we read it. That's an excellent review from him.
A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Schultz- Nothing new here. Basically a recap of the classic Christmas tv special (unless the book came first but it doesn't feel that way) One interesting thing I learned is that Schultz drew over 17,000 comic strips himself! He did not employ a large staff of artists to do the bulk of his work for him. Pretty cool, I thought.
This Is Our House by Michael Rosen- A lesson in not excluding others, with fun illustrations. What my 5 year-old took away from it was wanting make a "telephone" with tin cans and a piece of string.
Farmyard Song by Carol Morley- Another one that I enjoyed more than the kids did. I absolutely love the author's illustrations. I wish she'd come paint that sort of thing on my kitchen walls when we build our house.
Know Your Numbers by Tim O'Halloran- This did not particularly keep our interest. There was so much going on on every page that we had a hard time paying attention to what we were supposed to be learning. Also, the binding was not good on our copy so much of the illustrations were lost in the crack of each double page spread. We didn't even finish it.
When Cats Dream by Dav Pilkey- This is an author we have enjoyed in the past although I can't recall any titles offhand. A very cool book even if I do disagree that cats live their "real" lives while sleeping. Then again, it is an interesting explanation for why they all sleep so darn much.
Poppleton and friends by Cynthia Rylant- Read this on the way from church to Taco Bell last Sunday- everyone loved it as much as the first time. We're on a bit of a Cynthia Rylant binge right now. I put a bunch on hold from our library (I didn't realize she had some in the junior fiction too) as well as from other libraries. We're still waiting for those to come in.
Story time for Little Porcupine by Joseph Slate- AC and I read this this morning while the others occasionally peeked in to hear a page or two. They all seemed to like it- AC (3.75 yo) like it best. I liked the illustrations.
If I could drive a crane! by Michael Teitelbaum- Kind of lame, typical toddler-boy type of book. The boys thought it was "Ok" and we did enjoy seeing the special crane used to move shipping containers from ships to the backs of diesel trucks.
Tree-ring circus by Adam Rex- Daddy read this to the boys last night. We also heard it last week during story time at the library. TH (5 yo) thinks that a book is automatically "spamous" if the librarian reads it to us. This was a really fun book and the drawings are cool but it is a bit hard to read the sentences in some place because the words are part of the illustrations.
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