Every once in a while, I like to give you the titles of some kids' books that I love! If reading children's books was a viable career, I'd be all over that!
So, here are my latest suggestions:
Aidan got this book for his birthday from my best friend. This book is amazing! I love this dynamic duo writing illustrating team, that brought you classics, like "Today I Feel Silly". This book is about a teacher who gives her students an assignment - her great-grandmother came over to America from an unnamed far distant place. All she could take with her was what she could fit in a small suitcase. The teacher then produces that small bag, and each student takes turns taking it home, and deciding what they would take with them. This is a PERFECT book for us right now, because we are going through something similar, and in a few months, Aidan will be having to make some similar decisions. Thankfully, we're able to take more than one small suitcase, but there will be some tough choices coming up, especially if you're 3 years old.
Louis Slobodkin was a prolific writer in the 50's and 60's. This was one of my books when I was little, and I love it! It's about a grandma who babysits her twin grandsons for a week. One of them loses a mitten, and the whole town ends up finding lost mittens everywhere, and brings them to the boys' house. Grandma and the boys decide to make a clothesline for all the extra "missing mittens", so that anyone who lost a red mitten can go there and find it. Then, mom and dad come back from vacation, and brought back everyone a little something, and the boys got...
The link to this book is actually a single volume edition of three of their books, one of them being "A Good Place To Hide", which is another wonderful story!
This is one of those sweet, bedtime, love-affirming books. The words, although gentle and well-written, aren't the reason this book made the list. It's the illustrations. The reason I love the illustrations, is because the "parent" figure is a bear, and the "child" figure is a bunny. Of course, it's never pointed out or mentioned. I think this would a wonderful addition for families with adopted children, or even foster children - showing that you don't have to look alike, for the love to be real, unconditional and unwavering.
I am a BIG Patricia Polacco fan! Her book the Keeping Quilt will always be a Top 3 of mine! My principal at the school I worked at introduced me to this one, and I love it too! It's about a little old lady, Babushka, who paints beautiful eggs to sell every year in Moscow. One day, she sees an injured goose, and takes her in, to nurse her back to health. They become very close, but one day, the goose (Rechenka) gets startled and accidentally knocks over all of Babushka's painted eggs, and they all break. Babushka is devastated, as she won't have anything to sell at market. But the next day, Rechenka starts to lay beautifully painted eggs...
This book gets me emotional every time. It's about a Little Seed and a Little Fox, who both have to overcome their fears when life changes. The seed loves living in a cozy seed packet in the Farmer's shed, but one day the Farmer tells him, that he has a plan for him, and plants him in the dirt. The seed doesn't understand why he's in a dark, messy place, but decides to trust the Farmer. There's a recurring line in it, that says "The Farmer was good, and the Farmer was kind, and the Farmer was always watching over them. Even when they didn't know it."
We had the great pleasure of driving through Nashville last year, and visited the Johnny Cash Museum. We found this book there! The author has written poems about Johnny Cash's life, and used Johnny Cash's song titles as the names for each one. The illustrations are very beautiful! We're big Johnny Cash fans, so for us this was a great find!
I added this one for Aidan, haha! This is a fun flight of imagination for a boy who is bored on a road trip. This one may appeal to me because of all the itinerating we've been doing, but it really is full of all-boy fun!
So there you have it! Those are my latest children's book recommendations! Do you have any you think I should check out for next time? What's your favorite children's book?
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