With the Spring season quickly approaching, it can often be daunting to think of fun things to do on rainy days at home. One of the best things you can do with your little one is read to them. Parents.com recently came out with a list of the top 11 books for the toddler/preschool age groups. Some of these may have even been around when you were a little one :) I have placed a link below each book to purchase. Also, dont forget that the book fair at the Rose campus is happening this week. It is a great opportunity to let your little one pick out a new book. Happy Spring and happy reading!
Yikes! Eddie's teddy is enormous! And there's a real bear with just the opposite problem - his teddy bear is much too small! Could it be a case of mistaken identity?
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of one of the most popular children’s books ever created, this pop-up edition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the perfect new platform for the classic caterpillar, who literally pops off the pages of the book—crawling along branches, munching through food, and in one of the most memorable climaxes ever, emerging vibrantly as a three-dimensional beautiful butterfly.
This is a stunning, tour-de-force pop-up that no fan of Mr. Carle’s work will want to miss.
Have you ever gone on a bear hunt? Come along on this one with a brave young family -- four children (including the baby) and their father. They're not scared. With them you will cross a field of tall, wavy grass ("Swishy swashy!"), wade through a deep, cold river ("Splash splosh!"), struggle through swampy mud ("Squelch squerch!"), find your way through a big, dark forest ("Stumble trip!"), fight through a whirling snowstorm ("Hoooo woooo!"), and enter a narrow, gloomy cave. WHAT'S THAT? You'll soon learn just what to do to escape from a big, furry bear!
With tremendous pace, humor, and verve, Michael Rosen has retold a favorite tractional story. The pictures by Helen Oxenbury, one of the most widely loved contemporary artists, are full of masterly characterizations, delightful comedy, and high drama, set in lovely sweeping landscapes. This is a book not to be missed, one to be chanted aloud and acted out, to be enjoyed over and over again. It is a picture book on the grand scale.
"Clear bright illustrations show all the cars of a train bringing the reader the excitement of movement through day and night, country and city."--Booklist.
Spaghetti is yummy, but worms - and blue crayons, and sand, and other things too gross to mention - are definitely yucky when tasted. Amiably illustrated in a bright, graphic style, Leslie Patricelli’s spirited board book, YUMMY YUCKY stars an obliging, bald, and very expressive toddler who acts out each pair of opposites with comically dramatic effect.
This is a beautifully simple picture book that celebrates the wonder of new life - the perfect Easter gift! There once was a little little bird. It was so little, it was only an egg...When a little bird is inside an egg, it cannot walk, it cannot sing, and it cannot fly. All it can do is be sat on. But when the time is just right: 'Pop!' - out it comes. And then a little bird can do almost anything!
Delightful cumulative rhyme leads up to the consequences of piling too many sleepy people and animals in a cozy bed. Don Wood s paintings endow Audrey s familiar plot with beauty and newness, conveying atmosphere as well as illustrating the story. --Publishers Weekly
Fruits and vegetables leap off the plate and off the page in Saxton Freymann's fast-paced tribute to things that GO!
When you see piles of veggies lying sedately around the corner store, you'd never guess all that produce really wants to go, go, GO! But Saxton Freymann did, and he's transformed those basking berries and lazy legumes into vehicles of every size and speed. Kids everywhere will thrill over the array of transportation methods on display, from enormous rockets and grand ocean liners to the simplest mechanism of all: your feet. And as always, Freymann's clever vegetable sculptures delight the eye and tickle the funny bone. Hurry up and grab some FAST FOOD!
When you see piles of veggies lying sedately around the corner store, you'd never guess all that produce really wants to go, go, GO! But Saxton Freymann did, and he's transformed those basking berries and lazy legumes into vehicles of every size and speed. Kids everywhere will thrill over the array of transportation methods on display, from enormous rockets and grand ocean liners to the simplest mechanism of all: your feet. And as always, Freymann's clever vegetable sculptures delight the eye and tickle the funny bone. Hurry up and grab some FAST FOOD!
This book is the fifth title in the series of distinctive and popular concept board books starring a gloriously expressive baby.Eating an ice cream makes the baby happy. Dropping the ice cream makes the baby sad. Splashing in the mud makes the baby happy. Having a bath makes the baby sad. Being all alone makes the baby sad. Cuddling with Mummy makes the baby happy. There are tears and smiles galore in this introduction to the concept of happy and sad, with bright, bold illustrations.
How may kisses does it take to say goodnight?
A flock of hapless sheep drive through the country in this rhyming picture book.
