First, Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince is absolutely one of my favorite books of all time. And I have several copies of it. But then I found the big fat pop-up edition at a bookstore and just about wet my pants with excitement. I got to leaf through it, pull the tabs, watch the sunrises and sunsets over the little planets, watch the snake slither up...it's incredibly well-crafted. This will be put on the really-pretty-books-around-which-I-will-gather-my-well-behaved-children-for-meaningful-family-reading-time shelf.
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| Dinosaur vs. The Potty |
Second, my son and I have both been fans of Bob Shea's Dinosaur vs. Bedtime for a while. I haven't read Dinosaur vs. The Potty yet, but I'm confident it will be just as fun as the first. I'm hoping my son's enthusiasm for roaring like a dinosaur will carry over to enthusiasm for learning to use the potty.
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| LMNO peas |
Third, I just grabbed LMNO peas off the shelf at the library this weekend, and it's adorable! The illustrations are simple and sweet and the rhymes are the same.
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| Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears |
Last, I grabbed Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears on the same library trip, and it's fantastic. It's a bit of an alphabetical I-spy book, like Graham Base's Anamalia and so many others, but it's so clever and simple. The page for X made me particularly happy, though so many other alphabet books seem to struggle with that one. The humor and the aesthetic also remind me of A Town Called Panic*, which is always a plus.
* If you've never seen A Town Called Panic, please go watch it right now. It's French, it's hilarious, and it's available on Netflix Instant Watch.
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