Category: Poetry & Rhyme
Darkness Slipped In: Ella Burfoot
Darkness Slipped In By Ella Burfoot Reading level: Ages 3-6 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Kingfisher (June 10, 2008) Darkness Slipped In, immediately caught my eye with it’s illustrations – it’s not often that you see a picture book with a black cover. Typically black is not a color that creates a cheery first impression, yet [...]
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough?: Karen Beaumont
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont Reading level: Ages 3-7 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) (May 27, 2008) Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? Well … normally I would have to say it was me, but this time it was someone else! Reminiscent of the preschool game Who [...]
The Sock Fairy: Bobbie Hinman
The Sock Fairy by Bobbie Hinman Reading level: Ages 3-7 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Best Fairy Books (June 15, 2008) Written in verse, The Sock Fairy, is the second book in Bobbie Hinman’s mischievous fairy series. The magical story combined with the illustrations provides entertaining insight to sock mysteries, such as missing socks, mismatched socks, [...]
The Knot Fairy: Bobbie Hinman
The Knot Fairy by Bobbie Hinman Reading level: Ages 3-7 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Best Fairy Books (January 1, 2007) Did you ever wake up in the morning and wonder how your hair had become such a tangled mess of knots? Are you a mother or father that battles with your child every morning just [...]
Animalia: Graeme Base
Animalia by Graeme Base Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (September 15, 1986) … “Animalia came from a great love of animals and a desire to create a book with huge amounts of detail and things to discover. That was the sort of book I remember enjoying as a child,” [...]
Earth Day – 2008
Earth Day is a day designed to bring awareness to our world and it’s environment, and to highlight ways in which we can work together to make it a better place. The first Earth Day was back in 1970. The original organizers set up a network (EDN) where people from all over can collaborate to [...]
Do Princesses…
Carmela LaVigna Coyle is the author of one of our favorite series. Along with Mike Gordon’s very sweet illustrations, Carmela LaVigna Coyle has created an extremely down to earth, outdoor-loving, girl collection. Most young girls dream, aspire—or at least dress up as—a princess at some time in their childhood. There are so many princess books [...]
Poem In Your Pocket Day
Today is the first ever Poem In Your Pocket Day , where thousands of people will be carrying a poem in their pocket. I Have A Secret Dragon I have a secret dragon Who is living in the tub, It greets me when I take a bath, And gives my back a scrub. My parents [...]
Where’s My Mom?
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review Published: April 3, 2008 Where’s My Mom? by Julia Donaldson Reading level: Ages 3-8 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Dial (March 27, 2008) Julia Donaldson, an English writer and playwright, is one of my favorite children’s authors. Her latest book to be published in the US is Where’s My [...]
National Poetry Month
By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review Published: April 1, 2008 Each year, the Academy of American Poets commissions a special poster for National Poetry Month and almost 200,000 copies are distributed for free. April 1st marks the start of National Poetry Month. Since 1996 publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, and poets come together [...]
