What We Read Today

04/16

The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Hippos Go Berserk by Sandra Boynton
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear by Nancy White Carlstrom
Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas by Natasha Wing
The Monster At the End Of This Book by Jon Stone(5 times)
Pat the Bunny(3 times, for Sarah but Will was interested)
The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Old Woman and Her Pig, and The Wolf and Seven Little Kids from My First Oxford Book of Stories by Geraldine McCaughrean

Nursery Rhymes:
The Donkey, The Three Little Kittens, Hickory Dickory Dock, Sing A Song of Sixpence, If All the Seas Were One Sea, Girls and Boys Come Out To Play, There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe, Cindereller, The Queen of Hearts, Hey Diddle Diddle, and There Was An Old Woman Tossed Up In A Basket from Nursery Rhyme Comics collection from First Second Books.


Will was not a big fan of the McCaughrean fairy tales, but he has yet to be very interested in any fairy tales. We've read The Monster At The End Of This Book before, but I haven't pulled it out in awhile. He thought it was hysterical and fell over laughing several times. He insisted it be one of his nap stories, his bedtime book, and read it to Ben.

The Foot Book, The Night Before..., and the Oxford book stories were all new. Everything else was a repeat. I like Hippos Go Berserk more than he does. Caps For Sale required multiple pauses so he could act out the story. He thought the donkey from The Donkey looked like Eyeore.

Will was more interested in Pat the Bunny than I thought he would be. Sarah liked to be held and showed some interest in the mirror. I wonder about getting a copy of Peek A Who that is not falling apart, since our original copy was highly loved.

Made a new library hold list and should be getting 15-20 new picture books and will be taking back our current batch.

I'll miss Peter and the Seal, The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse, The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV. I might recheck the Oxford book and keep trying.