Friday, September 18, 2015

Recent Reads: for the munchkins

In no particular order:

the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder--we are currently reading By the Banks of Plum Creek. Annie and Jacob adore these books and are often discovered acting out scenes we have read

One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey

Where's Spot, Spot's Birthday Party, and other Spot books, by Eric Hill. Sophie likes Spot. :)

the Beatrix Potter stories (Annie likes to listen to these on tape during rest time)

the Little Bear stories by Else Minarik

The Ox-Cart Man, by Donald Hall

Frederick, Swimmy, Fish is Fish, and other titles by Leo Lionni

Play with Me, Gilberto and the Wind, Just Me, and In the Forest by Marie Ets

Chicken Soup with Rice, by Maurice Sendak

Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion

Two Bad Ants, by Chris van Allsburg (favorite of Jacob)

Song and Dance Man, by Karen Ackerman

On Market Street, by Arnold Lobel

Read Aloud Bible Stories, by Ella Lindvall (there are 5 volumes and the older three kids loved these re-tellings)

Freight Train, by Donald Crews

The Parable of the Pumpkin Patch, by Liz Curtis Higgs

Island Boy and Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney (favorites of Annie)

Nic of the Woods, Lynd Ward

My Getting Ready for School Book, Harriet Ziefert (favorite of Sophie)

Aileen Fisher's poetry books

3 in 1 by Joanne Marxhaussen (great illustration of the Trinity)

Big Thoughts for Little People and others by Kenneth Taylor

Mother Goose, illustrated by Michael Hague

cloth books for chewing (favorite of Nora)

The Big Red Tractor and the Little Village, by Francis Chan (I didn't know he had written children's books--this one was adored by Jacob)

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