Book Love

Last weekend my mom, my sister, and I went to a huge used book sale at the library.  We went on Sunday - you get a bag of books for $4!  As many as you can stuff into the bag.  LOVE sales like that!!  No Montessori books for me, but I did pick up a few fiction titles to keep me busy, and I found some real gems for E.

In The Beginning by Steve Turner is a BEAUTIFUL book about creation with gorgeous artwork!

Counting God's Creatures by Jan Mecklenburg is super cute and has all sorts of "critters" in it.

What is a Flower by Jenifer W. Day is a good picture dictionary of common plants and flowers.

Rain by Robert Kalan has interesting pictures - the raindrops are the word RAIN repeated over and over.  It goes through colors and ends with a rainbow.

Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward is a cute book about a troublemaker cat.  No . . . we don't have any of those at our house.  Not us!

We also picked up In My Town by Richard Scarry, because E and Daddy both have a thing for Lowly Worm.  And I found some really neat Planet Earth "animals of the air" flashcards - they look like they were from the dollar spot at Target.  I wonder if I can find any more sets - these are AWESOME!!

From the Book Corner

E and I wanted to share with you one of our all-time favorite books.  I think she started "reading" this one to me when she was about 16 months old or so.  It is one we check out from the library at least once a month.

E loves the Maisy books, but Hooray for Fish is her absolute favorite book, and has been for some time.  I finally found a copy on half.com, and it came last week in the mail.  She was SO excited!  And then proceeded to "read" to me the whole book.

The illustrations are bright and cheerful, just like the Maisy books, and there are so many different kinds of fish to look at.  Especially fun are the pages with many fish, one page has a pineapple fish and a strawberry fish!

Go check it out from the library!!

From the Book Corner

E and I have some new favorite books to share with you today.  We recently found the Pebble Plus series at our library, and we LOVE them.  I have been looking for some simple non-fiction books about animals to share with E.  Specifically ones with great photography, rather than drawings.  Enter Pebble Plus.  I like the Eyewitness books, but they are way over my 2-year-old's head.  Too many things going on on the pages.  The Pebble Plus books are simple.  3 or so sentences per page, and some great huge photographs.  E's current favorite is the one about meerkats, part of the African animals series.  She tells me, "Meerkats are from Africa.  They eat lilards (lizards).  I love them."  They also have books about big trucks and construction equipment, plant systems, landmarks, personal health and hygiene, and weather/seasons.  I'm finding them to be a wonderful, age appropriate, non-fiction series.  We have to pick up at least one each time we go to the library.

On a slightly related note . . . do you know how hard it is to drag a 2-year-old book lover from the library WITHOUT any books because you forgot your wallet at home??  Yeah, it was a real fun morning.