MommaReads

The first day of school is over and Henry is telling his mom all the ways that first grade is different than kindergarten. He gets to sit at his own desk (not a table), he makes some new friends and even sees some of his old friends from kindergarten, he learns new songs, he tells his mom all about eating lunch at school for the first time and how his teacher picked HIM to deliver a note to the office and he didn’t even get lost. He’s a big first grader now!

Sammy the Shark is SO excited about the first day of school! The only problem is that when he gets REALLY excited he bites things and when you are a shark, that is a REALLY big problem. Sammy has a very interesting first day of school trying to not get so excited that he ends of chomping the books, the chairs, the desks, or, GULP, the teacher!

There are ten days left until kindergarten and the rumor is that you have to know how to tie your shoes in kindergarten and that if you don’t know how to and they come untied no one will help you. There is a lot of worry and angst leading up to the big day until she actually gets to school and realizes that hardly anyone knows how to tie their shoes and that they WILL help you. Phew!

Sam’s mom reads him his favorite book, tucks him in, gets him his stuffed animals, gets him a glass of warm milk, but he’s not ready for bed until he gets a kiss good night. Great bedtime book and so sweet.

This is such a sweet book about an elderly woman and her wariness about letting anyone or anything into her life until a sweet little dog shows up at her gate one day. It comes to her gate every day and every day she feeds it and tells it to go home and then one day the dog doesn’t show up nor does it show up the next day. The dog’s sudden absence helps her to realize how much she loves the cute pup and how much she does want him to stick around and not go home. This story has a sweet and happy ending that will warm your heart.

We LOVE Tacky around here. He is a penguin that marches to the beat of his own drum. He is always messing things up and irritating the other penguins, but in the end, Tacky always seems to come to the rescue. There are several Tacky books; our favorite so far is Tacky and the Winter Games. Your kids will laugh out loud and so will you.

They may not know how to hold a treasure map or dig for buried treasure, but they make great strawberry jam and know how to knit fantastic sweaters. A cute story of two pirates who get kicked out of pirate school and learn how to make their way in this world with some unexpected talents.

An adorable story about how aliens steal underpants from the clothesline. What child doesn’t think underwear is funny? Add that to some very endearing and curious aliens with a cute rhyming story and you will definitely get a chuckle or two.

I would be remiss if I did not mention as some point the go-to books that my own kids get from the library EVERY week. The Little Critter books have been big in our house for the past four or five months. They are very cute books and I have never met a Mercer Mayer book I didn’t like.

Do you have a picky eater at home? Well, Mrs. Peters has seven picky eaters. Each one of them will only eat one thing. Peter will only drink milk, Lucy will only drink lemonade, Jack will only eat applesauce, Mac will only eat oatmeal, MaryLou will only eat bread and the twins will only eat eggs. Poor Mrs. Peters spends all of her days making applesauce, bread and lemonade from scratch, making sure there are no lumps in the oatmeal and making sure the twins’ eggs are just right. One night she drags herself up the bed hoping the next day, her birthday, might be different. The children have a surprise for her…