Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Award Winner, Easy Read, Good Read Aloud, Maurice Sendak, Quick Read, Seafaring
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When Max is sent to bed with no supper (he was being far too wild) he wiles the time away pretending he is on a voyage. He sails away for almost a year and comes to the place where the Wild Things are. After a wonderful time playing with the Wild Things, Max smells supper cooking and sails for home.
This is one of those odd little books that seem to have no reason, and no structure, but is thoroughly enjoyable. It’s just a little boy imagining, and it’s fun to imagine with him. Some fuss could be made over Max’s being sent to bed with no supper as punishment and then having a fun time, but imaginations are very wild things. And I guess you have to do something while you’re sitting there, waiting.
Posted by Sarah
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Picture Books, Review
Tags:Animals, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Laura Joffe Numeroff, Moose, muffins, Quick Read
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One day a moose comes to visit and the little boy gives him a muffin, starting a whole chain of events including puppet shows, sweaters, and more.
The “if you” books are so much fun! The illustrations for this one are great. There is one reference to Halloween, which we usually skip over, but it’s still a great book.
Posted by Becca
Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Bernard Waber, Easy Read, Good Read Aloud, Quick Read, Teddy Bears
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Ira has been given permission to sleep over at his friend’s house. He’s very excited until his sister asks him if he will take his teddy bear along. Ira wants to take the teddy bear, but he’s afraid that his friend will laugh at him.
Ira Sleeps Over is a simple story with a seemingly simple dilemma. After all, how hard can it be to decide whether or not you are going to do something? As this book shows, it can be very hard to make a decision, especially if you risk looking silly. But, as Ira finds out, sometimes we really have nothing to worry about in the first place.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Easy Read, Emmy Payne, Good Read Aloud, kangaroos, Quick Read
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Katy the Kangaroo has a problem. She has no pocket in which to carry little Freddie, her son. All the other animals have ways to carry their babies, but Katy just can’t find a good way to carry Freddie. In desperation, she goes to the city to try to find a pocket.
This is such a sweet little book, and the pictures (drawn by H. A. Ray, co-author of Curious George) are so cute. I’ve read this one to many of my little friends, and it has yet to grow old.
Posted by Ruth
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review
Tags:Animals, Easy Read, Good Read Aloud, Graeme Base, Quick Read
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A tale of greed and high adventure in two acts. In which our heroine Pearl Trout, along with her brother and the brave Corporal Bert, must thwart the villainous Gropmund Grouper and his devious scheme to not only cheat the inhabitants of Reeftown out of their money, but to destroy the very town itself!
Graeme Base’s combination of beautifully-done, full-color pages of illustrations with perfectly (and often comical) rhyming prose makes for such an enjoyable experience. It’s a terrific read-aloud, but everyone will surely want to go through and study each picture by their self, too. As with most of Base’s books, there are hidden things to be found—in this case, the sign of the seahorse is tucked somewhere on every page, and close examination will also reveal the continual appearance of “two largely unnoticed shrimps,” to quote the list of the Cast. All in all, great fun for any age.
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