How Do You Hug A Porcupine? is one of my absolute favorite books! I would read this to lower grades (K-2) and for each animal I would ask how they think they would hug that specific animal. I would then read the book and compare the answers from the students to the actual text. Next, we would go ove...
I spotted this book in the bookstore (yes, even though stores here have little English books in stock, they do have some). I was immediately pulled towards the book, the cover looked adorable, and the blurb sounded so cute. I love how this book is mostly from the point of view of the present, or t...
Not realizing this was illustrated by Gwen Millward (The Bog Baby). I wasn't expecting a great deal. The text is sweet and simple and nicely suited to reading aloud to preschoolers and early elementary students. But the illustrations are just to die for. So sweet, so cute, so wonderful. I just love ...
Cute premise but a couple of the other creatures the narrator didn't want to hug such as the skunk. Why couldn't he/she figure out a way for them, too, or leave them out for another book? Fair illustrations.
These books by Willis & Millward keep finding me at just the right moment. I found [b:The Bog Baby|4926603|The Bog Baby|Jeanne Willis|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4168rpbZf7L._SL75_.jpg|4992207] last time I was up at the cabin, and due to wonderful Goodreads friends, this hit my doorstop ju...
While not quite as magically wonderful as [b:The Bog Baby|4926603|The Bog Baby|Jeanne Willis|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4168rpbZf7L._SL75_.jpg|4992207] (which I highly recommend), The King of Tiny Things is still utterly charming and worth a look. And although the two books stand alone q...
My love for this book may be bound up with when I read it, but I think even stripping out the situational affection, it's a lovely story. I just spend a week up in the woods, in a family cabin. We drove into town early in the week and blinkered the local library into giving us a library card, becaus...
How do you kiss a warthog?
Review to come...
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