The Bears' Vacation

Author	Theo LeSieg
ISBN	0394831284

I had so much fun with Zander, my 4-year-old asking him which of the options he liked best. It's fun to get to know our family in new ways.

* Talking points: Pick 5 of the choices in the book and tell us which you would chose and why? Tell about some other choices you had in the past and how the choice you...

Author	Doreen Cronin
ISBN	0743490096

Farmer Brown is going on holiday and so he asks his brother, Bob, to take care of the animals. 'But keep an eye on Duck. He's trouble.' Bob follows the instructions in Farmer Brown's notes exactly to the letter. He orders pizza with anchovies for the hens, bathes the pigs with bubble bath, and lets the cows...

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Robert Lopshire

“Put Me in the Zoo” by Robert Lopshire is a children’s book written about an animal that wants to be in a zoo.The animal really wanted to be kept in a zoo, but when he asked the zookeepers, they said no and kicked him out. At first, he was very upset and did not understand why they would not keep...

Author	Owain Bell
ISBN	0679843655

My love of reading started when i was young, and it gives me immense pleasure to provide books to Spread the Word Nevada, an organization that passes them on to children in the community. They are a terrific organization supporting an important cause. If your local I encourage you to check them out....

Author	Michael Frith
ISBN	0394826922

A lesson in vocabulary
18 November 2013

This story, structured in beautiful meter and excellent rhyme, is about how we set ourselves huge goals, and imagine huge success, only to put it off because we prefer to sit under a tree and pass our days catching the rays from the sun. The protagonist...

Author	Theo LeSieg
ISBN	0007120249

All about eyes
17 November 2012

Hey, this book is so simple that I can translate most of it into German without going to a dictionary.

Das Auge Buch
Auge, Augen.
Meine Augen, Meine Augen.
Seine Augen, Seine Augen.
Zwinke Auge, Zwinke Auge.
Rosa Auge, rosa...

Author	Theo LeSieg
ISBN	0679881298

How can one not put Dr. Seuss on a pedestal? He is Dr. Seuss. I thought I had read all of Dr. Seuss and then I found 2 more books and this is one of those. I still need to find 7 lady godivas. The book got better as it went on for me. I enjoyed the list of names, familiar and unfamiliar.

Listen to some of these...

Author	Al Perkins
ISBN	0375812121

This poetry book is about how noses come in all shapes and sizes and how tough life would be without a nose. It features noses on dogs, birds, turtles, people, seals, and all types of other animals. It shows seals playing instruments with their noses and wood peckers pecking everything in sight with theirs....

Author	Robert Munsch
ISBN	1550374842

None of the kids in her class wear a ponytail, so Stephanie decides she must have one. The loud, unanimous comment from her classmates is: “Ugly, ugly, very ugly.” Steadfast, when all the girls have copied her ponytail, she resolves to try a new style. With true Munsch flair, each of Stephanie’s...

Author	P.D. Eastman
ISBN	0394800516

Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym of "Dr. Seuss" (Seuss was Geisel's middle name) and only two hundred twenty-three words, Geisel created a replacement for those dull primers: "The Cat...