Book Review by Ashley Beecher The Pout-Pout Fish, by Deborah Diesen, is a fun book that teaches kids the importance of emotional learning. Mr. Fish believes he is a “pout-pout” fish and he doesn’t have control over it. It’s just the way he is and he goes around with a frown “spreading dreary-wearies” to all […]
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher In April Fool! Watch Out at School! by Diane deGroat, Gilbert wants to play the best trick on his friends for April Fools Day. Instead, he falls for the simplest tricks all day long and he can’t trick a single one of his friends. Even his mom sends a trick
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher Max, the little boy in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, gets sent to his room without supper for being a little too mischievous. Shut in his room, Max imagines himself on a journey to where the wild things are. He becomes king and declares a “wild rumpus,” only
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss, is a well-loved classic and we all know why. The catchy rhymes, funny story, and ridiculous situations steal children’s attention and have them laughing by the end. Every kid can relate with boredom and most kids have gotten themselves into trouble when
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher Often we associate little boys with dinosaurs, but in My Dinosaur, by Mark Alan Weatherby, a little girl spends a night playing with her dinosaur friend. They do everything from playing hide-and-seek to drinking from the river before the dinosaur returns her to bed. I love how this book encourages
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher At my house, we celebrate Christmas and one of my children’s favorite Christmas books is Where Do Diggers Celebrate Christmas? by Brianna Caplan Sayres. Any kid that loves trucks or Christmas is sure to enjoy this fun story about how different types of trucks celebrate the holiday. One of the
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher The Trouble With Elephants is a sweet book that talks about both the good and the bad parts of having an elephant. The author, Chris Riddell, creates an imaginative set of habits for a pet elephant that causes the elephant’s owner all kinds of trouble. Their antics will have kids
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher In Llama Llama Mess, Mess, Mess, authors Anna Dewdney and Reed Duncan deal with a concept that every family with kids has faced: cleaning up the toys. Llama Llama doesn’t want to clean up his toys when Mama Llama asks and together they imagine what it would be like if
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher I received We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen, at my baby shower before my oldest child was born. It’s based on a folk song and tells the story of a family that goes on an adventure through various terrains and weathers to find a bear. Then they
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Book Review by Ashley Beecher When I think back to my childhood and the books my mom read to me, one that comes to mind is Ten Terrible Dinosaurs, by Paul Stickland. The book begins with ten young dinosaurs and follows their antics as they play, but with each activity one of the dinosaurs goes
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