Happy Wednesday! I have three great Easy Picture Books for today’s second post in Children’s Book Week. Lili is a very quiet young girl. When the teacher calls the roll, she can’t hear Lili say ‘here’ and marks her absent. Lili never really had any friends at school, except for a rather bully-ish girl named Cassidy who claimed to be her friend but never treated her very well. And then one day, Cassidy began playing quite cruelly with the classroom guinea pig. And everyone was shocked when quiet little Lili screamed “STOP IT!” In the end Lili becomes friends with Rita and they care for the guinea pig together. A very cute children’s story, Louder Lili is Highly Recommended. Buy now $16.99
Nicholas Harris’ A Day In The City reminded me a bit of the Where’s Waldo series of books. In this volume, Harris presents the exact same view of a city street corner at various times of day from early morning to nighttime. The walls of each building are omitted in certain places to give the viewer a full picture of what is going on in the school house, the museum, apartment buildings and offices. The burglar who comes home and goes to bed early morning gets robbed himself mid-day, the fourth grader is positive he sees the caveman in the museum display move and people of every description come and go on their way throughout the day. I really enjoyed this one and expect that you and your child will too. A Day In The City. Highly Recommended. Buy now $6.95
Linas Alsenas’ Peanut is a really cute story about a lonely little old lady named Mildred who gets a pet she thinks is a dog. Trouble is Mildred doesn’t see so well anymore and her pet is really an elephant. Mildred tries and tries to treat Peanut like other dogs, encouraging him to roll over and fetch and so forth. One day in the park, a man from the circus comes up to Mildred and Peanut and says “Hay, you found our missing elephant. Peanut is very happy to be back with this circus friends, but Mildred is once again very lonely. Then one day finds what she thinks is a stray kitten. And takes the camel home to be her pet. A really cute children’s story. Peanut Highly Recommended. Buy now $16.99
yeah, CG. This book was originally published in Indonesia in I don’t know what language in 2007 and it’s first American (and in English edition) was just published in 2009. Our library does a pretty good job of getting new releases fairly quickly, though in some cases it can still take two years from publication for me to find and review a “new” book. (I do sometimes get advanced reading or reader’s copies from publishers and publicists, but I try to make sure that the books are generally available through public libraries and to clearly note exceptions to this.) You might have a word with the reference or children’s librarian when you go in to pick up the books. In my experience at least many times when a patron requests a title we don’t have, they decide to buy it and add it to the collection rather than borrow it from elsewhere. Every library is different, so your mileage may vary.
Ooh, I like A Day in the City for my girls (8, 6 and 3) although it might be a recent publication, right?
I did a search at the library and they have A year at a construction site and A year at a farm. I still think I’ll check those out. Thanks for tips!