MommaReads

No one will buy poor Corduroy. He has lost the button on his overalls and he looks “used”. He decides to take matters into his own hands and goes in search of a button, but is found by a security guard before he can accomplish his mission and is sent back down to be with the other toys. Things start to look up though when a child comes to get him and takes her home with him. She doesn’t care that he is missing a button, she loves him just the way he is and Corduroy gets a home just like he’s always wanted.

This book was a favorite at our house for quite some time a few years back. The animals at the zoo have gone on strike. The giraffes are wearing turtlenecks to cover up their necks, the zebras have painted in their stripes, the tigers have stopped growling…you get the idea. The zookeeper is trying just about anything he can to pacify the animals but the animals still aren’t happy. Things take a turn, however, when the zoo gets a special visitor who is heart broken by the animal strike. The animals quickly realize how important their jobs are and return to their posts ASAP.

If your child loves to rhyme and/or sing, they will L.O.V.E. this book. Be careful though, it’s one of those tunes that gets stuck in your head and you will find yourself singing it long after you have put the book down.

Ivy and Hacket have a very special Mother’s Day breakfast in bed planned for their mom but it does not turn out how they expected AT ALL. With the kitchen a total disaster and then an accidental spill once they get the food to the bedroom-things are not looking good. Ivy and Hacket’s mom comes to the rescue though and tells the kids that what she really wants from them is a sandwich, a hug sandwich.

This is a very cute story about all of the things moms can’t do. They can’t let go of a hug without a kiss, they can’t push a grocery cart fast enough, they don’t wear the right clothes or eat the right things for breakfast. The mom in this book is so lucky to have a preschooler who will help her race through the grocery store, pick out her clothes for her and will help her find the “proper” things to eat for breakfast. Not only is this book endearing, but your little one will love the funny illustrations that go along with the story.

In this tale, an Inuit girl asks her mother a lot of “what if” questions to see if there is anything she could do that would make her mother stop loving her. What if she threw water on the candle and made it go out…what is she put salmon in her mama’s parka…what if she put an ermine in her mama’s mukluks…what if she dropped the ptarmigan eggs…what if she turned into a mean polar bear with sharp teeth…no matter what she says her mother reassures her that the love she has for her is unconditional. Not only is this a sweet story of the love a mother has for her daughter, the book also has beautiful illustrations.

Mother mouse is trying to get her son to bed and she kisses him good night. He tells her he wants “another, mother” and she misunderstands and thinks he wants another mother. So she finds some other animal mothers such as a pig and a frog and they kiss him goodnight and sing him a good night song. Poor baby mouse only wants another kiss from his own mother. In the end they get their misunderstanding all straightened out and she, of course, gives him another kiss goodnight. Not only is this a very sweet story that is also funny, but the illustrations are fantastic as well.

This is a very cute story of a llama and his mama out for a long day of Saturday shopping. Things start out fine, but when things drag out for too long little llama loses it. The underlying story is one of patience and love and is one that all little llamas and their mamas can all relate to.

This is the story of a poor bird who falls out of his nest right after he hatches. His mother was out looking for worms when he hatched so he doesn’t know what she looks like, but he is determined to find her. He asks a kitten, a dog, a pig, a hen, a cow, a plane, a boat and several other things if they are his mother, but of course they are not. My boys thought it was funny that the bird thought all of these things were his mother-that’s just silly! 🙂 I think the part they loved the most though was that, in the end, the bird is safely reunited with his mother and all is well.

MommaRead’s first non-fiction book! I first heard of this book when our oldest child’s teacher read it to their class at the beginning of the school year. I loved it instantly. The idea of the book is that every person has an invisible bucket that they carry around with them every day. You can fill up others’ buckets by being nice to them and saying kind things or you can be a “bucket dipper” by being mean and rude. I like it because it gives kids a visual of what their words and actions to do others.