The Cow in Patrick O’Shanahan’s Kitchen – This is a cute bookthat illustrates where food comes from and sure to endear kids to good
food. They might even want a farm of
their own after going through the pages of this book.
eat his breakfast. As he and his cat help his dad prepare breakfast, he learns
the fun-way where the ingredients for his breakfast come from – be it milk,
eggs, or syrup.
story accompanied by equally delightful illustrations by Heather Knopf.
Boy Meets Dog – I loved playing word ladders (though not sure Iused this name for the game) as a kid. I even love it now. The author tells a
wonderful story while showing kids how word ladders can be played and we can
use this book to encourage kids to make up their own word ladder stories, thus
building creativity, vocabulary, spelling, and more!
ladder pairs, shortest word ladders win a prize, longest ones too(!), make
varied word ladders with same word pairs, etc.
Mind Benders: Cool! I have loved puzzles forever and other than
reading, this has been one of my favorite ways to spend my time (yes, not too
many physically active ways to spend time for me other than dance!) This book
definitely delivers mind bending puzzles of different kinds – word, logic,
number puzzles. The whole family has spent time poring over the puzzles in this book and figuring out everything – we have brought out spoons, crayons, toothpicks, and more as we tried to solve the puzzles for fun family nights…
Definitely a book for everyone to enjoy.
Ten Birds Meet a Monster: Younger readers will enjoy how the birds
come up with innovative ways to create monsters when they meet one that scares
them and also how one bird finally overpowers their monster! And what they do
when they discover who(what) their monster is. This will definitely encourage
kids to, like the birds, use everyday items for play and fun, rather than
needing more ‘toys’. I especially love the ink sketches here.
Linking these books to What are you Reading? From Picture Books to YA at Teach Mentor Texts and
These books also go towards a couple of challenges I signed up for this year:
Picture Books Challenge @ Book Dragon’s Lair
NetGalley/Edelweiss Books Challenge @ Falling Into YA
For Monday Musings, just some regular book musings
reading and reviewing the books already on my list of books to be read and
reviewed before getting more books from all the wonderful places I get my books
from. But that was millions of moments ago and many books have been got, borrowed,
downloaded since then. Now,
I need to check back on the books that got missed starting with today’s post of
book reviews
I think I've seen a copy of Ten Birds previously. This one must be an addition to what-must-now-be-a-series. 🙂 The word game adventure picture book also caught my eye. I also loved playing with words as a child. Will look into that one.
Have a great reading week!
Love the books!