Dimity Duck toddles out of bed, brushes her feathers and is ready to start her day. We follow her as she swims in the pond for her breakfast, as she spends the day playing with her friend Frumity Frog and then as she ends her playtime with Frumity and heads off to bed with a big snore. Such a sweet read and it rhymes…you know I am a sucker for books that have a good rhyme.
From the text to the illustrations, this is such a sweet and simple book. I love the repetition, too…enough to engage a little one and get them involved, but not so much that it gets in the way of the story. A child wants to know if it is summer yet. His mom lovingly reassures him that it’s not summer yet, but if you look around you can see that nature is preparing for it and soon you will see signs that summer is here.
Is there a book that your kids have you read again and again and again? Or maybe a series of books that they just can’t seem to get enough of?
We have been through a Halloween book phase and a Curious George book phase in the past year or so. Currently we are in a Berenstain Bears and Magic School Bus phase.
Kids look so forward to the start of summer, but this book is a reminder as to all of the reasons why summer stinks…C is for castles the tide washed away and D is for dog doo I stepped in today. Oh, and there’s more…..M is mosquitoes and millions of bites and N is not sleeping on hot sticky nights. See? School is looking better and better. 🙂 If your child has a sense of humor, they will love this book.
This is the cumulative tale of all the steps a father goes through to bake an apple pie for his daughter. Cumulative tales are fun because children pick up on the repetition and can “read along” and participate. The illustrations in this book are also worth mentioning. They are not colorful, but they are very detailed and really compliment the essence of the story and its setting.
A simple story of a bear and his dad on a trek through the woods…playing in the leaves, eating berries, watching the sun going down. This story is simple and sweet and the illustrations are magnificent.
Amanda is afraid of the dark at night so her dad takes her outside to see all of the things that are outside when it’s dark that aren’t scary, like fireflies and stars, but when they go back inside there are no stars or fireflies. So the next day Amanda and her mom and dad create a sea of stars to put on her bedroom ceiling. It turns out that Amanda’s dad it being deployed and they both agree that the North Star is going to be “their star” and every time they look at it they will think of each other. Bring on the tissues!!! This is a truly touching story of the relationship between a father and daughter.
I am a sucker for just about anything Mercer Mayer and this one is no exception. It is the story of a boy camping with his dad. As with many of Mayer’s books, things don’t go very smoothly, but no matter, things will turn out alright in the end because he is with his dad.
Dads can get grumpy sometimes and sometimes they are as grumpy as bears. But what would happen if your grumpy dad actually turned into a bear?! I bet he’d give GREAT bear hugs even if he had bad smelly bear breath and I bet he’d make great honey sandwiches. See what other perks come with having a bear for a dad…
A little girl gets to spend the whole day running errands with her dad in their old blue pickup truck. They have all kinds of fun running around town to various stores to pick up this and that. They go to the bakery, the plant nursery, the hardware store and the farm store. The story ends up back at the farm, right where the story started…the little girl, her dad and their trusty old blue pickup truck.
