by Julie | Apr 13, 2009
Paddle to the Sea by Holling Clancy Holling Do you remember this book? Paddle to the Sea is seared onto my memory from childhood, mostly from watching the movie version of it in the Tenafly Public Library, probably in 1977 (Kate, were you with me?). So I was greatly...
by Julie | Apr 6, 2009
Digger Man by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha Kids are funny. Henry’s always been fairly ambivalent about trucks and diggers. He used to like them more when he was, say, 2, but he’s always been more into animals and Winnie the Pooh. When Eli came...
by Julie | Mar 30, 2009
The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer This is a book I think of as a “tip of the iceberg” book. Some books are simple, and you read them, and you’re done. But a tip of the iceberg book: you read it, it seems fairly straightforward, but then you finish it...
by Julie | Mar 23, 2009
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philemon Sturges, illustrated by Amy Walrod I’ve never been a fan of the Little Red Hen story. You know, the one where she works insanely hard to make a loaf of bread (growing the wheat herself and everything; the Little Red...
by Julie | Mar 16, 2009
Grandpa’s Too-Good Garden by James Stevenson I remember the first time I read this book to Henry. He was maybe two-and-a-half, and we were sitting on the couch, and I was reading this book but also maybe thinking about something else a little bit. Suddenly,...
by Julie | Mar 9, 2009
Yesterday’s Snowman by Gail Mack, illustrated by Erik Blegvad This book gives me hope at the end of winter, of a time when you might build a snowman and then it would melt away to nothing by the next morning, and you would see brown grass on the ground instead...
