A photo essay that shows so many of the special ways that grandparents love their grandkids and a tribute to all the perks of being a grandparent and being a grandchild. This would be a great book to spark a discussion with your own children about what makes their grandparents special. This would also make a great gift for a new grandparent.
A beautiful story of a mother and father waiting for their adopted child and all of the love, joy and late nights that come with becoming parents for the first time.
This book is a counting book as well as a book about families. The beautiful illustrations depict families of various shapes and sizes working together. As the numbers get larger (the books starts counting by tens after a while and goes up to 100) the author introduces the idea of neighborhoods, schools and teams being “families” working together towards a common goal. A great way to talk about communities and families and how even though they aren’t the same they do have some similarities.
L.O.V.E. this book!
Mornings have hugs.
Toasters have plugs.
Breakfast has mugs.
Leaves have rakes.
Birthdays have cakes.
Bellies have aches.
But my favorite is the last line…Families have together.
The illustrations in this book are so cute and I love that it rhymes, too.
When Papa snores the lamp on the bedside table rattles and when Nana snores the blinds on the windows clank together, but when they are both snoring at the same time…oh my goodness!!! Even the neighbors start complaining. It’s funny who does manage to get some rest with all of that racket though.
This is a great book to talk about similes and metaphors with kids while also discussing how family members are all different, but very important pieces of a family.
“My dad is as stubborn as a knot in a rope.”
“My mom is as soft as the softest fluff.”
“My brother is as strong as a baseball bat.”
“My baby brother is as sweet as candy.”
Of course, the storyteller has some similes to describe herself….”I am as sparkly as a star.”
At first Ben’s a little cranky about having to spend the summer in a dusty old house by the ocean, but when he finds a “treasure” in the garage, the whole summer takes a turn for the better. Ben and his grandma end up having great fun with picnics on the beach, splashing in the ocean water and finding more treasures on the beach after a storm.
I completely believe in using books to help you talk to your kids about things that maybe you aren’t sure how to discuss. This is the PERFECT book for explaining to your children that families come in all different forms and that, in fact, some families have two dads. I also love this book because it focuses on how the two penguins spent so much time together and how much they clearly loved each other. I also love this book because it’s a true story of two penguins who ended up with a penguin baby to care for and how the workers at the zoo made it happen. I would read this book to your children before they come to you with questions. When they do come to you with questions then you can talk about this book. They then already have a frame of reference with which to understand what they’ve just asked you. It makes the discussion much easier that way.
If you have more than one child I know you wondered as some point during the pregnancy how you could ever love a second child as much as you loved the first. This book explains it perfectly to two little boys who want to know which one of them their mother loves the best.
A little girl has a loose tooth and she is hoping falls out soon because she needs the money from the tooth fairy so she can buy her dad a birthday present. I love that is rhymes and that it mixes English and Spanish together is a way that you can figure out what the Spanish words mean even if you don’t know Spanish.
