I Love You Stinky Face

read on: September 29,2006
Title: I Love You Stinky Face
Author: LIsa McCourt
Description: A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk, scary ape, or bug eating green alien.
My Favorite Part: Swamp Monster & cyclops
Mommy's Favorite Part: Skunk
Check This Out: http://www.lisamccourt.com/

10 Fat Turkeys

Read on: September 28, 2006
Title: 10 Fat Turkeys
Author: Tony Johnston
Description: 10 goofy turkeys perform silly acts on a fence
My Favorite Part: Goony turkey whistling in a shoe
Mommy's Favorite Part: Gobble Gobble Wibble Wobble
Check This Out: http://www.scholastic.com/familymatters/read/all/storyhour/tenfatturkeys.htm

Never, EVER Shout in a Zoo

Read on: September 27, 2006
Title: Never, EVER shout in a Zoo
Author: Karma Wilson
Description: See what happens when a little girl shouts in the zoo.
My Favorite Part: "uh oh"
Mommy's Favorite Part: The ending
Check This Out: http://www.bearsnoreson.com/home.html

Pattern Fish

Read on: September 26, 2006
Title: Pattern Fish
Author: Trudy Harris
Description: Discover the patterns of each fish
My Favorite Part: The shark
Mommy's Favorite Part: the different patterns

What the Sun Sees/What the Moon Sees

Read on: September 25, 2006
Title: What the Sun Sees/What the Moon Sees
Author: Nancy Tafuri
Description: What does the sun see during the day, Turn the book around and see what the moon sees
My Favorite Part: I like that the book flips around
Mommy's Favorite Part: what the moon sees

WOW! It's Great Being a Duck

Read on: September 24, 2006
Title: WOW! It's Great Being a Duck
Author: Joan Rankin
Description: Baby duck doesn't want to fly like his family and learns to walk instead but because he can't see will the mean old fox get him?
My Favorite Part: When the fox chases him
Mommy's Favorite Part: When duck finds out about fox

Magic Hat

Read On: September 23, 2006
Title: The Magic Hat
Author: Mem Fox
Description: What happens to a town of people when a magic hat blows through town?
My Favorite Part: The Big Chicken
Mommy's Favorite Part: The big baboon
Check This Out: http://www.memfox.com/welcome.html

Wheels on the School Bus

Read on: September 22, 2006
Title: The Wheels on the School Bus
Author: Mary-Alice Moore
Description: School version of the Wheels on the Bus song
My Favorite Part: The Nurses on the bus
Mommy's Favorite Part: The Librarian on the bus (of coarse)

One Day in the Jungle

Read on: September 21, 2006
Title: One Day in the Jungle
Author: Colin West
Description: See what happens when the animals sneeze in the jungle
My Favorite Part: When the Elephant Sneezes
Mommy's Favorite Part: When the Elephant Sneezes

Who Are You Baby Kangaroo

read on: September 20, 2006

Title: Who Are You Baby Kangaroo

Author: Stella Blackstone and Clare Beaton

Description: Travel the outback to find out the name of the baby kangaroo

My Favorite Part: All of It

Mommy's Favorite Part: ??

Another Monster at the End of the Book

Read on: September 19, 2006

Title: Another Monster at the End of the Book

Author: Jon Stone

Description: Grover and Elmo go on a search to find the monster at the end of the book. Grover however tries to stop Elmo from going to see it.

My Favorite Part: When Grover and Elmo fight over who the monster is.

Mommy's Favorite Part: When Elmo says "turney, turney, turney" its just fun to say!

Nuts To You

Read on September 18, 2006

Title: Nuts To You

Author: Lois Ehlert

Description:

My Favorite Part:

Mommy's Favorite Part:

Sail Away Little Boat

Read on: September 17, 2006

Title: Sail Away Little Boat

Author: Janet Buell

Description: Follow the little boat as it travels down a stream and into the ocean

My Favorite Part: When the children play with the boat at the beach

Mommy's Favorite Part: When the otters play with the boat

Duck, Duck, Goose a Coyote's On the Loose

Read on: September 16, 2006

Title: Duck, Duck, Goose a Coyotes On the Loose

Author: Karen Beaumont

Description: All the animals are running away from what they to believe is a coyote.

My Favorite Part: the surprise ending

Mommy's Favorite Part: the cow

Toot and Puddle: Puddles ABC's

Read on: September 15, 2006

Title: Toot and Puddle

Author: Holly Hobbie

Description: Puddle helps Otto learn the alphabet and how to write his name.

My Favorite Part: the letter K

Mommy's Favorite Part: the letter U

P.B. Bear: Catch That Hat

Read on: September 14,2006

Title: P.B. Bear Catch That Hat

Author: Lee Davis

Description: P.B. Bear must catch his hat after the wind blows it off his head.

My Favorite Part: I liked it all

Mommy's Favorite Part:Grandma read it to me.

Punk Farm

Title: Punk Farm

Author: Jarrett Krosoczka

Description: Farmer Joes animals put on a rock concert.

My Favorite Part: the blazing finale

Mommy's Favorite Part: She loves it all.

Check this out: http://www.punkfarm.com

Jamberry

Tuesday, September 12th
Title: Jamberry
Author: Bruce Degen
Description: Take a fun journey through berryland with a boy and a bear.
My Favorite Part: "Elephants skating on raspberry jam"
Mommy's Favorite Part: All of the fun rhyming words.

Time For Ballet

Monday, September 11th

Title: Time for Ballet

Author: Adele Geras

Description: Follow a little girl as she takes ballet lessons and dances in her first show

My Favorite Part: When they are dancing in the show

Mommy's Favorite Part: The illustrations

A Was Once An Apple Pie

Title: A Was Once An Apple Pie
Author: Edward Lear Illustrator: Suse MacDonald
Description: A fun rhyming, alphabet book
My Favorite Letter: F
Mommy's Favorite Letter: I
Check this out:http://www.susemacdonald.com/

Three Little Rigs

Saturday, September 9th

Title: The Three Little Rigs
Author: David Gordon
Description: The 3 Little Rigs set off on their own to build their garages to live in. Will the Big Bad Wrecking Ball ruin it all for them?
My Favorite Part: The Big Bad Wrecking Ball
Mommy's Favorite Part: ??

Hippo-Not-Amus

Friday, September 8th

Title: The Hippo-Not-Amus
Authors: Tony and Jan Payne
Description: Tired of being a Hippo, Portly leaves his home in search of another animal to become.
My Favorite Part: When Portly tries to be a giraffe
Mommy's Favorite Part: Portlys name progression

Russell the Sheep

Thursday, September 7th

Title: Russell The Sheep

Author: Rob Scotton

Description: All the sheep are asleep except Russell, will he ever fall asleep?

My Favorite Part: When Russell's hat goes ziggy-zaggy

Mommy's Favorite Part: When Russell counts sheep

If You're Happy and You Know It

Title: If You're Happy and You Know It

Author: Jane Cabrera

Description: A fun sing along, play along book.

My Favorite Part: "Jump Around"

Mommy's Favorite Part: "Go, Kiss, Kiss"

Other Books We Read: Silly Sally By Audrey Wood, Dinofours by Steve Metzger, 2 Babybug Magazines

Little Quack

Title: Little Quack
Author: Lauren Thompson
Description: Little Quack and his brothers and sisters venture out from their nests into the water.
Favorite Part: "I Like Everything"
Mommy's Favorite Part: The illustrations, Little Quack is so cute! (illustrations by: Derek Anderson)
Check this out: Print out coloring pages: http://www.derekanderson.net/ColoringPages.html
Other Books We Read: Care Bears Busy, Busy, Sunny Day by Sonia Sander, I Can Go Potty by Bonnie Worth (yes, even though I have been potty trained for over a year I still like to read the books) and Piglet & Friends SAD by Laura Galvin

The Umbrella

Book: The Umbrella

Author: Jan Brett

Description: A bunch of rainforest animals make themselves comfortable in an umbrella while the umbrellas owner climbs a tree to explore.

Check this out: www.janbrett.com she has coloring sheets and lots of fun activities!

What I Like Best: When all the animals go "Ker-SPLASH"

What Mommy Likes Best: The Frog

Other Books We Read: Care Bears The Day Nobody Shared by Nancy Parent and Dinofours I'm Having a Bad Day by Steve Megzger

Good Boy, Fergus

Book: Good Boy, Fergus
Author: David Shannon
What the Book is About: A day in the life of Fergus the dog.
My Favorite Part: When the owner is trying to get Fergus to come inside
Mommys Favorite Part: The look on Fergus's face when he is caught with the flower
Other good books we read last night: Puddle's ABC by Holly Hobbie
Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild by Mem Fox

*These are books we read the night of 9/3/06

Rainbow Magic

Current Chapter Books: Rainbow Magic Series
Check out their website: http://www.rainbowmagic.co.uk/home.html (this is the uk site and some of the titles are different)

We are currently enjoying book 3 in the series: Sunny the Yellow Fairy

What are the books about: Jack Frost has banished the 7 Rainbow fairies from Fairyland. He has hidden them somewhere on a place called Rainspell Island, where two girls named Rachel and Kirsty are on vacation. They find Ruby the Red fairy and are asked to help find the other 6 fairies. If all the fairies are not found Fairyland is doomed to remain sad and grey.

What I like About Them: I like the fairies and the map in the front of the book. I also like giving my ideas on what is going to happen next.

What Mommy Likes: She likes that the chapters end with a small cliffhanger. This way she can keep me guessing what is going to happen.

Welcome To My Bookself

My mommy wanted a way to keep track of some of the books we have been reading and thought it would be a nice idea to share the books we read with all of you. Maybe you will find a favorite too!