Now in case you're wondering I'm not entirely crazy. I know that Chloe is not really absorbing all these stories, at least so many in the day, and that I could read them more than once and she really would not notice. But I get bored of reading them again and again right away. I know eventually I'll have to get used to that when she is old enough to have favorites and I had to read her the same bedtime story at LEAST 5 times before she will humor the idea of closing her eyes for even just a few minutes, but that won't be for a while. And I hope we have the same favorites.
That and as I check out SO many books at once, I simply cannot help myself, I want to get them back to the library in a reasonable amount of time so someone else can find them, since not everyone is like me. Yes, I have my library website bookmarked, on my bookmarks bar, with my login saved. At night when Chloe falls asleep I peruse Amazon.com looking for titles of books that look interesting and have good reviews then I immediately search the library website and if they have them I put them on hold. I stopped at the library last on November 24th and by November 27th my request list was up to 28. All of them had been in stock previously.
Anyway! Back to today's reviews.
(Also by Doreen Cronin, Giggle, Giggle, Quack and Duck for President)
Keep in mind a lot of the books that I put up here will be geared more towards girls. I have a daughter, so this simply cannot be helped. These books are not those books. Good for boys or girls and absolutely hysterical. My mom used to read these to me when I was little and they always made me laugh.
Start with Click, Clack, Moo and me convincing you to read the others will be rendered completely unnecessary. Beyond just a funny story the illustrations are fantastic! Chloe always seems more entertained looking at these books than others.
The main character of all these stories is Duck. Duck is such a simple character but with a huge personality that carries on through all of the books. Doreen Cronin has written more books that I've yet to read but when I can track them down I certainly will read them again.
These three books are being added to Chloe's wishlist. I wouldn't mind reading them several times over. I already have.
Zorro the little pug wakes up with his brother one morning all excited for the usual daily activities. Dog owners can all relate to the picture of the two pups with their faces smooshed against the bed, anxiously awaiting their humans waking up. That is every morning here so long as Chloe doesn't beat them to it!
He is all excited to get up and go for his walk, until his owner puts him in an embarrassing outfit and poor Zorro is humiliated.
Zorro mopes all the way to the park, and at the park, until he meets a new cool dog who is wearing a sweater, then he doesn't feel so bad about his outfit and he in fact decides that it makes him run faster! (I had a similar revelation about a new pair of sneakers my dad bought me when I was younger and visiting my grandmother at her farm. I was convinced the shoes made me run fast like Sonic the Hedgehog and I'm sure I spent at least an hour running around her front lawn trying to prove it.)
It's a really cute book and the expressions on the dogs faces are priceless! Zorro reminds me of my corgi, Oliver, with his big personality so that gave this book an extra thumbs up from me.
Yes, I bought this. My library didn't have a copy and I remembered reading it from when I was little (you will see that I am a HUGE fan of Kevin Henkes' mouse books... if you have not already looked at Chloe's Christmas list). This book is wonderful. It stars Lilly (Lilly is also present in Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Lilly's Big Day, and Chester's Way but I will get to all of those later).
Lilly is a very dramatic, opinionated, out there character and she is brilliant! She really comes to life the best out of all of Henkes's characters. I'm sure that is why she is the most written about mouse.
In this book Lilly's parents have just had a new baby, Julius. They gush over him and Lilly thinks he is disgusting. She wants nothing to do with him, and when forced she does what she can to obey her parents and disobey them at the same time like telling stories about how horrible he is, and singing the alphabet to him backwards. She even goes so far as to warn everyone she knows about the evils of babies.
In the end Lilly grows to love her little brother and it is very sweet.
I hadn't read this book since I was maybe 8 or 9 until I bought it and read it to Chloe. I started laughing so hard that I had to stop. Several times.
If you know someone who is expecting a new baby with older children this would be a great gift. But it's also great to read to any kid!
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My Tiny Pumpkin is waking up from her nap next to the Christmas Tree so it is time for me to go. We've got books to read, and laundry to fold, and the great hunt for a new bookcase for her today. Oh, and of course a visit to the library to attend to! I hope you all have a fantastic day!!
Feel free, again, to leave your reviews on any of these books in the comments section if you have read them. Also I always enjoy suggestions of other books to read. So comment! Comment away.
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Once again, book images from Amazon.com
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