Ira Sleeps Over
 | author: Bernard Waber rating:  asin: 0395205034 binding: Paperback list price: $6.95 USD amazon price: $6.95 USD |
Ira is thrilled to spend the night at Reggie's, until his sister raises the question of whether he should take his teddy bear.
The Hollyhock Wall
 | author: Martin Waddell rating: asin: 0744577322 binding: Paperback list price: $10.35 USD amazon price: $10.35 |
Pickles To Pittsburgh
The children in our home (our own and visiting) love this book! Of all the books I read at story time, they told me this was favorite. However, it's not nearly as fantastic as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
 | author: Judi Barrett rating:  asin: 0689839294 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD |
In Pickles to Pittsburgh, the Barretts' sequel to the delightfully funny, bestselling Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, we check back in with Kate and Henry as they eagerly await Grandpa's return from an unusual vacation. Kate dreams about a postcard Grandpa has sent, and the story begins. Kate and Henry pilot a plane, landing on a runway of crisp bacon strips next to a field of giant broccoli stalks and oversized hamburgers.
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems
This beautifully illustrated book has a wide variety of poems. Our girls (then ages 5 & 8) picked a few out to commit to memory, such as The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The book also has less familiar poems such as The Beautiful by W.H. Davies:
Three things there are more beautiful
Than any man could wish to see:
The first it is a full-rigged ship
Sailing with all her sails set free;
The second, when the wind and sun
Are playing in a field of corn;
The third, a woman, young and fair
Showing her child before it is born.
 | rating: asin: 1905236565 binding: Hardcover list price: $19.99 USD amazon price: $13.59 USD |
The 74 poems in this exquisite collection trace our journey through life from birth to old age. Along the way, the works of some of the finest poets in the English language celebrate all kinds of human experience: the wide-eyed wonder and adventure of childhood, the magnificence of the natural world and the animal kingdom, the mystery of love and the tragedy of war.Each page is superbly illustrated by Jackie Morris, making it a feast for the eyes as well as the ears.
I Love You As Much... Board Book
 | author: Laura Krauss Melmed rating: asin: 0688159788 binding: Board book list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Celebrate Mother's Day every day.
A Child's Good Night Book Board Book
This is a very simple, soothing book about how all creatures on the planet sleep at night. At the end there is a beautiful picture of angels holding children and small animals as they sleep. The last page is a prayer: "Dear Father, hear and bless/Thy beasts and singing birds,/and guard with tenderness/Small things that have no words."
A 1944 Caldecott Honor Book
 | author: Margaret Wise Brown rating: asin: 0694008397 binding: Board book list price: $7.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD |
Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. "Jean Charlot's illustrations are first-rate." —NYT. Barbara Bader called this 1943 book, now restored to its original size and format, "the first of the true bedtime books." 1944 Caldecott Honor Book
Strega Nona Takes a Vacation (Picture Puffins)
 | asin: 0142500763 binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD |
After dreaming about her childhood by the seashore with her beloved grandmother, Strega Nona is distracted, wondering what it could mean. But when she starts giving the villagers the wrong remedies for their stomachaches and headaches, she realizes the answer: it's time for a vacation.
Franklin's Friendship Treasury
Since Laurel (then 9) has been enjoying hearing the Franklin stories so much, I got another in the series, Franklin's Friendship Treasury. As soon as the girls saw this book they wanted to hear all 4 stories right away. Part of me finds these stories boring, but I must admit I really love how the parents talk to thier kids. Franklin is a good role model, even if he doesn't always do the right thing, he makes it right in the end.
 | author: Paulette Bourgeois rating:  asin: 1550748726 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $10.85 USD |
Franklin learns about the meaning of friendship in these four classic stories, now available in one volume. Franklin Has a Sleepover, Franklin's Bad Day, Franklin's New Friend and Franklin's Secret Club are gentle stories that have helped make the lovable turtle one of the world's best-known and most endearing children's book characters.
Wings of Change
Our (then) 2 year old wanted to hear this story over and over. Change can be scary, but "As the world turns, so do you. When you change for the good you change the world too."
 | author: Franklin Hill rating: asin: 093569918X binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $12.44 USD |
Wings of Change is the story of Anew, a contented little caterpillar who is afraid to become a butterfly. After experiencing some puzzling dreams, he turns to Faith, a wise old snail, for advice. She gently explains, "As the world turns, so do you. When you change for the good, you change the world too."
Love You Forever
 | author: Robert Munsch rating: asin: 0920668372 binding: Paperback list price: $5.95 USD amazon price: $4.95 USD |
The mother sings to her sleeping baby: "I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen. So far so ordinary--but this is one persistent lady. When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing through her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way.
