So to start with I'd like to present to you, Snoozers by Sandra Boynton.
I would actually recommend anything and everything by Sandra Boynton. She makes some of the best board books that exist. They're all great. But Snoozers is a current favorite at our house. I love it for a few reasons. 1. because the illustrations are so funny 2. because it's 7 stories that are each just an open page long. 3. some of it rhymes 4. it's all about going to bed
5. one of the pages is just a contents page 6. it's short
Max likes it because he gets to pick the order we read the stories in from the contents page (we always just read them in order even though he insists on dictating the order) he loves the illustrations, and several of the stories have kid participation parts. Also I think his favorite part is that there's a song at the end. A really weird silly song. Really weird.
So if you want a quick fun read that'll make your kid laugh and yawn before bed check this one out! If you click on the title it'll take you to amazon.com's page for this book.
A special extra. Several of you have probably already seen this today because it was featured on a couple of different blogs, but I thought this was a really cool site.
It's called Freerice.com. Click here to go to it.
It's fun and interesting. It's like a huge vocabulary quiz. And every vocab word you pick the right definition for, this site donates 20 grains of rice to "the hungry" of the world. They have some details and explanations on the site as to where the rice goes and where it comes from.
I sat down for a few minutes earlier today and got up to a level 47 vocabulary rating--can anybody beat that??
I would actually recommend anything and everything by Sandra Boynton. She makes some of the best board books that exist. They're all great. But Snoozers is a current favorite at our house. I love it for a few reasons. 1. because the illustrations are so funny 2. because it's 7 stories that are each just an open page long. 3. some of it rhymes 4. it's all about going to bed5. one of the pages is just a contents page 6. it's short
Max likes it because he gets to pick the order we read the stories in from the contents page (we always just read them in order even though he insists on dictating the order) he loves the illustrations, and several of the stories have kid participation parts. Also I think his favorite part is that there's a song at the end. A really weird silly song. Really weird.
So if you want a quick fun read that'll make your kid laugh and yawn before bed check this one out! If you click on the title it'll take you to amazon.com's page for this book.
A special extra. Several of you have probably already seen this today because it was featured on a couple of different blogs, but I thought this was a really cool site.
It's called Freerice.com. Click here to go to it.
It's fun and interesting. It's like a huge vocabulary quiz. And every vocab word you pick the right definition for, this site donates 20 grains of rice to "the hungry" of the world. They have some details and explanations on the site as to where the rice goes and where it comes from.I sat down for a few minutes earlier today and got up to a level 47 vocabulary rating--can anybody beat that??
9 comments:
I think that is a wonderful idea to post reviews. The board books are especially welcome. I don't think I will do a vocab test vs. you...
I've gotta have it. And Snuggle puppy, which I am going to find RIGHT NOW>
And I LOVELOVELOVE your font on the masthead!!!
47 on freerice?!? That's super impressive. The highest I could get was 46.
I adore Sandra Boynton. Personal Penguin is our favorite right now but it looks like I'll need to go get Snoozers.
Wow you guys are good, looks like I need to do some more reading or something. I only did it for a little while, but I still couldn't get past 21.
Thanks for the book suggestion. We loved the pictures of the walk! And, it must take a serious loser to steal a family's mama fish.
Alas, I'm only up to 40.
We just took "Snoozers" back to the library--then I read your blog and thought "hey, we just had that book!" I really liked it and thought I should purchase it for myself! (or nate?!) lol
There is a book called "Grandma and Grandpa" that I LOVE! It has no words that I can remeber, it is a little picture story about a little kid thats spends the afternoon with it's grandparents. I checked it out from the library when Erin was a baby and told Mike I expected us to be those grandparents. I will have to look for Snoozer for my little Issy, she already enjoys being read too.
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