In a town as small as mine, if you don't do your Christmas shopping early (and online), you're out of luck come Christmas Eve. Because our tiny Target only has so much to go around. My favorite gifts for the girls are books. I like them. They like them. And unlike toys, they're usually made in the USA and will more likely contribute to some sort of intellectual actualization.
My favorite finds of late:
When I was Young in the Mountains, by Cynthia Rylant
Poppleton, by Cynthia Rylant (I adore any book by this woman)
Wild Girl, by Chris Wormell
Each Peach Pear Plum, by Janet and Allan Ahlburg
Penelope's tastes vary. Right now, she's obsessed with Horton Hatches an Egg, which I bought purely out of nostalgia when she was an infant. She's also favoring Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport--a book she wanted exactly nothing to do with for a year after I bought it. So, you just never can tell. Like veggies, sometimes all you can do with books is leave them out and hope that the kiddos take to them.
And now Santa wants to know: what are your favorite children's books?
6 comments:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie... That book changed my life.
You can't go wrong with Mo Willems. My boys love all the pigeon ones, as well as Knuffle Bunny and There's a bird on my head. Have you seen Naked Mole Rat? It will make you laugh for hours.
Well, I consider YOU one of my go to book resources, so I probably won't be of much help. I was going to mention Mo Willems, but I'm sure you've already discovered his wonderful books. One that I recently picked up that I've enjoyed is "I Love You, Stinky Face." I can't remember the author at present, but I picked up the board book at Walmart.
Oh...a few more I just thought of that you may have already discovered too, but if not, they are great! "You Are Special" by Max Lucado (I think that's his name). He has a few other books and they're all about wooden people called the Wemmick's and they're wood carver Eli. There are Christian undertones, but not in annoying kind of way--more like a great, feel good message kind of way.
That Peeps is my kinda girl--I was obsessed with both Horton books as a kid. Also, "The Maggie B." by Irene Haas. When they are pre-readers, I love to get really rich illustrations because they will usually sit there and pour over the details in the pix, then start making word connections.There's a nice "Puff the Magic Dragon" book that comes with a CD my kids love. James loves "Ferdinand" about the bull who just wanted to smell the flowers.
Lily loves anything with the moon in it. "Papa, Please Get the Moon For Me" or "I Took the Moon for a Walk Last Night."
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