Kids Blog: Easy Picture Book

Since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share several picture books that are just the sweetest.  As you read them, these stories will pull on your heart strings and encourage you to cuddle up close with your little one.   

 Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke

Jay Jay spends the day with his granny were food, kisses, hugs, and love abound.

Only You by Robin Cruise

A parent describes everything there is to love about a child.

Daddy Hug  by Tim Warnes 

Animal fathers give hugs that come in all shapes and sizes, and each one is filled with love.

Te Amo, Bebé, Little One by Lisa Wheeler

A mother repeatedly says how much she loves her baby.

See a Heart, Share a Heart by EricTelchin

Your and your child can search for the hearts throught this photograph book.

I read different types of children’s books throughout this year from picture books that are great read-alouds to books about exciting real life experiences. Here are my favorites from the past year.

5. If Waffles were Like Boys by Charise Mericle Harper- This book is silly fun about imagining how ordinary things, such as waffles, socks, and toothbrushes, would become exciting if they were more like fun, adventurous boys. 

4. Oh! What a surprise! by Suzanne Bloom- Bear and Goose are back for another sweet tale with a new friend, Fox. When Fox finds his friends making surprise gifts, he decides to make them each a gift.  If you have not had a chance to read the whole series, start with A Splendid Friend, Indeed.

3. Snow in Summer : fairest of them all by Jane Yolen- Jane Yolen is one of my favorite authors and she wrote my favorite type of stories-fairy tale retellings! She recasts the story of Snow White and set it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.

2. Chicken Big by Keith Graves- This story about a giant chicken that hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them. It is a laugh out loud tale when the chickens think this huge animal could not be a chicken but proclaims he is one ridiculous object after the other.

1. Trapped : how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean desert by Marc Aronson- A great non-fiction book for 5th & 6th graders about thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile.  It told the amazing account of these brave mine workers as they survive underground while experts from around the world--from drillers to astronauts to submarine specialists--came together to make their remarkable rescue possible.  This is my favorite book from 2012.

Tell us what books you read over the past year and loved. Leave a comment.
 

One of my favorite traditions during this time of year is reading The Night Before Christmas with my family. The history of this famous poem is really interesting. According to information I found in Britannica Public Library edition database available through the library, the original poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas, was originally published anonymously in the Troy, New York Sentinel on December 23, 1823. It was only after it had been printed for several years that Clement Clarke Moore acknowledged his authorship of the poem. As the legend goes, Clement Clarke Moore, who at the time was a scholar and professor, was inspired during a shopping trip on a snowy winter’s day to write this poem for his children.  Over the years, people have written their own versions of The Night Before Christmas including these books available at the library.

What do you think about when you think about Fall? Here is what I think about:

Crunchy leaves blowing in a crisp, cool wind.

Jack o' lanterns on porches, watching with their crooked smiles and flickering eyes.

Cloudy days that feel just right for hot cocoa and spooky stories!

Are you ready for Fall? I sure am! I am putting myself in a Fall mood by reading some of my favorite spooky and silly picture books.