MommaReads

A book that is a good reminder that even a day that starts out bad can turn around to be a good day. Little yellow bird loses his favorite tail feather, but later on forgets about it and ends up flying higher than he has ever flown before. Little white dog gets tangled up in his leash, but works himself free and runs through the dandelions. Little brown squirrel drops an acorn, but later on finds the biggest acorn ever. The illustrations are charming and the text is simple and sweet.

I saw this book today at the bookstore and I immediately fell in love with it. First of all, if you know anyone who is expecting or just had a baby, go out and buy them this book. They will cry and when they are done crying they will hug you and thank you. This book celebrates how awesome moms are and all of the many, many talents that moms have and how many things they do for their children every day from sun up to sun down.

My mommy hung the moon.
She tied it with string.
My mommy’s good
at EVERYTHING.

I don’t have any little girls, but I have enough friends that do to know that sometimes little girls have a very hard time figuring out what they want to wear. Well the little girl in this book has the exact same problem…she has outfits that are to tickly, to prickly, to itchy, too baggy, too fancy and the list goes on and on. Worried she won’t find the right outfit? No worries. Turns out she that her comfy outfit is just the right one.

When I was a little girl, I wanted nothing more than to wear my mom’s high heeled shoes. Birdie feels the exact same way. She imagines how fantastic it will be to do cartwheels while her feet are glittering in mid-air and how grown up she will feel dancing around in high heels. She begs and pleads and her mom lets her wear her high-heeled shoes for just a little bit. Birdie tries doing cartwheels and realizes it is very difficult to land with heels on. Dancing wasn’t so easy either. She finally kicks them off because her feet are starting to hurt and realizes how much she can do barefoot…it’s much more comfortable too. 🙂

Love this book! It is the adorable rhyming story of Mr. MaGee and his little dog, Dee, who decide to spend their day at sea. (See, told you it rhymes.) 🙂 While they are at sea they have a run in with a friendly whale. Things don’t go as planned and they have to be rescued by an unlikely group. Super cute!

There are so many things to love about this book. It rhymes, it gives children the opportunity to count backwards, it has a lot of repetition which is great for children’s participation which is wonderful for pre-readers and early readers and it has animal sounds. This book will appeal to children of many different age levels because it has so much to offer.

This is a non-fiction book that is very child friendly and is written and illustrated in the classic Gail Gibbons’ fashion. This book discusses the history of apples, the parts of an apple, the role bees play in making apples, some of the yummy goodies that can be made with apples and different types of apples. This is a great non-fiction book and could easily be read in parts or all at one sitting.

Loretta and her son, Delmore, each have their own goal. Loretta’s goal is to get her apple tree to grow some apples. Delmore’s goal is to be able to hit a baseball. So all through the spring and summer Loretta tends to her apple trees and Delmore practices his swing. Loretta does get some apples to grow and Delmore does end up hitting the ball, just maybe not where he should have it. Whoopsy!

Love this book that celebrates a family’s fall traditions…A young boy and his grandma go to the farmers’ market to buy a variety of apples (unless he has soccer, then he doesn’t go) to make homemade applesauce. While he makes applesauce with his mom and grandma, his dad makes potato pancakes and crepes to go with the applesauce. As fall passes, different apples become available and the color of the applesauce they make changes. They eat their applesauce with ice cream, cottage cheese, cookies and sliced bananas. They even make his grandpa an apple pie for his birthday instead of a birthday cake.

I love how this book not only shows how the apple tree changes throughout the seasons, but it also shows all the ways the tree is used by Arnold…it’s much more than “just” an apple tree. He makes a swing to hang from a branch of the apple tree and he also builds a tree house in the tree which gives him shelter when it rains and also gives him a great place to read a book or have a picnic. When fall finally arrives, he makes apple cider with his family and he decorates some of the apples for Halloween. Finally, during the cold winter months, Arnold decorates his tree with strings of popcorn and berries for the birds to eat.