Super silly picture book wherein the father keeps pulling increasingly less probably items from under the seat cushion of a comfy chair. The archetypal comfy chair. The one I've become obsessed with. Now in addition to passing time looking at gorgeous home libraries on Pinterest, I've taken to looki...
A very cute, fun story about feeling rather bitey. Great to teach kids not to hurt others and how to help friends in need.
Mahy's poem was rhythmically great, and the nonsense was a lot of fun. She never goes into the actual meaning of fandango, but just seems to enjoy the word. I could hear a lot of Edward Lear in this, but also it reminded me very much of Nancy Willard's "The Man in the Marmalade Hat." Dunbar's illust...
A wonderfully whimsical rhyming story with fanciful illustrations.
Odd little verse story about an overwhelmed father who finds a succession of increasingly bizarre items "down the back of the chair" as he searches for his car keys. Although quite fanciful, the story is surprisingly realistic in aspects -- the grubbiness of the under-parented toddlers, for instance...
Arthur wakes up from a dream about a boat, and reveals one new detail with each new family member he tells about his dream. Each detail is reflected in the illustrations, along with little extra touches that are fun to find that support the story. A fun book for suspending reality and reveling in th...
Katie is bummed by the gray day, but keeps trying to cheer herself up with color, until she turns into a bird.I didn't love this, but I think it would be good for talking with small children about bad moods and how they can change them.And if you figure that out, kids, let me know the secret!
This is a hilarious story about a little boy who is frustrated with is mute penguin. Well, he thinks his penguin is mute until something extraordinary happens. The antics that Ben, the little boy, goes through to get his pet Penguin to speak will make adults smile and little ones chuckle as they rec...
It's not like anything else I can think of. Sort of a modern urban fairy tale not based on anything else. Enchanting.Library copy.
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