Way back in my teaching years, one of the biggest questions I got from moms of boys was if I could recommend any books that I thought their son might like, that might keep them interested. If you have a boy, then check out this website…I wish I it would have been around about ten years ago. It’s called Books for Boys and I think you will find it VERY helpful.
Grandma ends up having to drive the trash truck because her sons, who normally drive the trucks, are sick. Let’s just say that grandma’s not used to driving the truck and there are a whole lot of mishaps, but at the end of the day she ends up getting a special award from the people in her town. If you have a little one who is in love with garbage trucks, then this is just the book for them.
It’s Billy’s birthday and he keeps getting all kinds of neat toys to play with, but he’s having a hard time sharing. He finally realizes though that it’s much more fun to share and to play with others than to play with a toy by himself. This would be a great story it you have a child who is having trouble sharing or if you are working on teamwork and how things are just better when people work together instead of on their own.
The mama animals have put their babies down to sleep for the night so they decide to have a barn dance while the little ones sleep. Each of the mamas ends up getting tuckered out and crawling into bed with their little ones and once the little ones notice that the mamas are all asleep they get up and have their own dance party. This is a super cute book and it rhymes…I am a sucker for cute books with a good rhyme.
Have you ever repeated something to yourself again and again in your head to help you remember, like a grocery list? Well, the little boy in this book is sent to the store to buy “six farm eggs, a cake for tea, a pound of pears, and don’t forget the bacon.” He tries and tries to remember the list, but it keeps changing. Your little one will laugh at the things he tries to buy and at what he forgets. “Six clothes pegs, a rake for leaves, a pile of chairs and don’t forget the bacon” is one of the many changes the list goes through.
I know that it’s after Christmas, but it’s still the Christmas season and this book was too sweet to pass up. Rabbit’s mom knits him a beautiful hat to keep his ears warm for the storm that is headed their way. Rabbit realizes that their friends will need hats too, so Rabbit and his mom secretly make all of their friends new hats for Christmas and deliver just as the storm starts. It’s at about that time that Rabbit realizes that he’s been so busy with his friends’ presents that he forgot to make something for his mom. What will he do?
This books follows in the spirit of The Night Before Christmas, but with a dinosaur twist. It has a little drama…an herbivore eats Santa’s list and then there’s a volcano that Tyrannoclaus and his reindeer dinosaurs have to navigate their way through, but it is also a sweet rhyming story or Tyrannoclaus persevering to get all of the dino kids their presents. If you have a child who loves dinosaurs, then they will love this book.
This would be a great book to share with the toddler, preschooler or kindergartener in your life. The illustrations are wonderful, it rhymes and it shares the story of Hanukkah as well as the traditions that go along with Hanukkah.
Bubba Brayna makes the best latkes around and soon the rabbi and many townspeople will come to her house to light the menorah and celebrate with good food and fun games. It seems that one of her guests, the rabbi, gets there a little early and eats all of the latkes before anyone else arrives. Or was it the rabbi? Bubba’s eyesight isn’t too great and it turns out that it wasn’t the rabbi, but a big brown bear. This book is so cute and your kids will think it’s hilarious as Bubba plays dreidel with the bear, as she tries to take his coat off and that she has to help him say the prayers as she lights the menorah.
Trevor has a serious case of the “wants” at Christmas time which results in him having a list for Santa that’s SO long that it’s going to cost him six trillion dollars just to send it. Trevor goes home to figure out what he really wants so he can have a shorter list, but he’s too slow and misses Santa’s deadline. What he does get on Christmas morning is a lesson in love.
