Mom on the edge.
Sixteen Cows by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Kurt Cyrus This one is for Emily. Lisa Wheeler, rhyme-mistress extraordinaire, continues to charm the daylights out of every single one of us, and really hits it out of the park with this one. It’s the story of Gene Biddle and Sue Waddle, two ranchers who live right [...]
Good grief, it’s been a long time since I updated the Recommended Books page. Sorry! It is now fully updated. The Videos page has also been updated (in case you wanted to see the Pledge of Allegiance again…and don’t forget to go back and watch Eli falling asleep in his snack, the first and still [...]
Today is my day to channel Vintage Kids Books My Kid Loves. My mom visited us a week or so ago, and brought with her a bunch of books she’d picked up at the library sale in her town. They were all animal encyclopedia books, for the most part, because those are Henry’s bread and [...]
Elfwyn’s Saga written and illustrated by David Wisniewski We get this book out of the library every few months, and I’m not sure I can say exactly why we find it so compelling. Part of it is the lush and amazingly intricate cut-paper illustrations, but I think we all love those stories that sound like [...]
All in Just One Cookie by Susan E. Goodman, illustrated by Timothy Bush This is the book I’ve been looking for! At the beginning of the summer, when I was assembling the Summer Jar, I had the idea of doing things like baking cookies, but learning while we did it, mostly learning about food chemistry [...]
Weslandia by Paul Fleischman, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes It’s probably a mistake to read this book in mid-August, because it will make your kid feel like they’ve been squandering their summer. No matter. Read it anyway, it’s worth it. Weslandia is about a smart boy named Wes who is shunned in his town of follow-any-leader [...]
Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller by Margaret Read MacDonald, Illustrated by Roxane Murphy Henry went to farm camp last week. Every day, on the car ride home, he would retell a different fascinating and compelling story that he’d heard. Finally, after three days of this, I said, “Where are you [...]
Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion by Lisa Wheeler, pictures by Frank Ansley Good grief, I’ve been completely neglectful of poetry books here, haven’t I? I think maybe it’s because — and this is a little hard for me to admit — I’m kind of all over the map on poetry. Some days I want [...]
If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen This is one of those books that I’m hesitant to recommend, because it’s such a staple in our lives that I worry you’ll all roll your eyes and say, “Tell me something I don’t know” or whatever hip lingo the kids are using these days. But [...]
Ollie Forgot by Tedd Arnold. Oh, poor Ollie. He’s a nice boy, but apparently has short term memory issues. Plus he has that common problem of getting a little ditty stuck in his head, and then he absent-mindedly sings that song. But it keeps getting him into trouble. It all starts when he sings “Rain, [...]
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