Nate has been into listening to and retelling The Midnight Library lately, Kazuno Kohara’s quirky tale about a little librarian, her three owl assistants and the menagerie of animals that visit their nocturnal library. We're working on retelling stories, which is an essential language skill for when he starts school. I try to choose simple storylines--The Midnight Library fits the bill, and it's funny, to boot.
Avery just finished reading The Chocolate Touch, a book I think I remember reading as a kid. Wouldn’t it be so wild to have the same “chocolate touch” that John Midas had, even for just a day?! We would love to know what everyone else is reading this week!
My Father’s Dragon: a bonafide adventure. Perfect for this crazy rainy day. Intense, booming thunder this morning—the loudest I’ve heard in a long while.
We are sharing children’s art books for March’s #littlelitbookseries.
It’s 1892, and Charlotte is keeping a journal of her year-long trip to Giverny, where her artist father is learning Impressionism, an emerging style of painting. Charlotte falls in love with France, manages to learn some new words in French, makes new friends, learns how to garden and is excited to attend Monet’s daughter’s wedding! (Now, if this isn’t the ideal way to spend a year, I don’t know what it is. Sign me up.) The book includes reproductions of many Impressionist works, insightful historical background and short biographies of some painters of the era. Charlotte in Giverny was written by Joan MacPhail Knight and illustrated by Melissa Sweet. In their series, Charlotte also travels to New York, London and Paris and learns about the various art movements in those cities. This series is a wonderful introduction to art history and the culture surrounding it.
Be inspired by everyone else’s artful picks in the #littlelitbookseries on Instagram.
It’s all about art for this month’s #littlelitbookseries.
A girl’s yellow balloon escapes its post and goes on an adventure through the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, drifting past famous paintings and sculptures, and wreaking havoc and hilarity on the way. This engaging wordless picture book, You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, is by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and Robin Preiss Glasser.
Head over to see the children’s art books that everyone else is sharing in #littlelitbookseries on Instagram.