Sorry this post is so late today, everybody!
Batteries on my camera were dead, and,
since I only use rechargeables, I had to wait for them to charge up!
(and no, tragically, no smart phone to take pictures as a backup!)
Anyway,
Singe Singe and I met Mo and heard him read this book!
For that story, told by Singe Singe, go here.
For the book review, stay here!
Title: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
Published by: Balzer and Bray, HarperCollins, 2012
Written by: Mo Willems
Illustrated by: Mo Willems
In one word: Clever
In one sentence: Three dinosaurs MAY or may not be setting the house up perfectly to trap a little girl…will Goldilocks discover what’s up before it’s too late?
Favorite pages:
Likes:
- Love the illustrations. I’m a sucker for the chalk-ish looking line and the filled in colors that are, well, hard to explain, I just like them.
- Hidden things in the illustrations, including witty and clever home decor, plus the Pigeon a few times!
- the story moves along quickly and is funny
- I love a fresh spin on an old story
- and what’s not to like about Mo Willems?
- Ooh, the dinosaur from Norway may be my favorite.
- failed ideas in the endpapers…so funny!
Learns:
- take one of those old stories and rework it in a new, fresh way.
- Don’t be afraid to be funny! For both the parent and the child.
- And, yeah, maybe put a moral in there at the end…or two, like Mo did 🙂
Wow this bookshelf is filling up fast!
AND SOMEONE IS
GOING
TO WIN
THIS SIGNED COPY
of
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs!
Make sure you have your comments in the post about what books you read…
the drawing will be tonight at 10 p.m. Pacific time and winner will be announced in tomorrow’s post.
Also, two more little notebooks are being given away!
I carved like a crafty maniac yesterday and made all five designs…
Testing them out today and notebooks will be stamped soon!
(Donna, I still need your address! Marcie, no picture of yours because I ALREADY mailed it 🙂 )
How’s Saturday so far, everyone?
Ours is lookin’ pretty chill over here.
Hope the day’s goin’ great and keep on readin’!
Enthusiastically yours,
Kathy Ellen and Singe Singe
I am certainly not keeping up with the picture book a day reading challenge – I knew I wouldn’t manage this month! 🙂 – but I’m loving reading yours! This book looks terrific, but, like you said, it’s Mo Willems, so that pretty much goes without saying 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Susanna! I know you’re busy so no worries about not keeping up! I’m glad you enjoy reading the posts, and, yes, Mo Willems is pretty great!
Once again, how neat that you even met Mo Willems! I love how he autographed his name with an illustration!
I read “Children Make Terrible Pets” by Peter Brown and thought this was a hilarious book with a fun premise. The kid is the pet and runs away from his animal owner.
I saw this book at the store, Tina! I’m actually meeting Peter Brown this upcoming Tuesday…I decided to get a few other books by him that will be up here soon. I love his illustrations!
Oh how neat! That is one impressive bookstore, if all these famous authors come there!
We made a trip to the library today and loaded up on more good books. Tonight we read WAGA’s BIG SCARE by Samuel Hiti. This book was great! Fun to read aloud, it is about a monster (so my boys liked it), it had great energy all the way until the end. AND THE ENDING WAS FABULOUS! One of the best books I have read this month.
Wow, Eric, what a good review! I’ll have to look for this one at the library. At the end of the month I’ll be compiling a list so it will be easier for me (and anyone else) to find the books we’ve read! I love trips to the library…going today in fact!
Kathy, I’m so glad you read and reviewed “Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs”…it was fun seeing how another person viewed the book…it was my book choice yesterday…and I had a somewhat different take on it. 🙂 🙂
Today I read “Rocket Writes a Story” by Tad Hills. I loved this story…what a unique story concept…a dog who collects words and decides to write a story. 🙂 Great illustrations…and a book that will encourage kids to write their own stories. 🙂
Tad Hills lives in my neighborhood. He can be seen at the cookie shop across the street from his house on any given day working.
Jealous on two counts, Marcie: That you can see him working, and that there’s a COOKIE SHOP in your neighborhood!
I saw your take on it Vivian, and I partially agree. I really like the book but I feel like, when you read it to children, you do have to explain some of the humor.
I really like Tad Hills…I’ll have to look for this one!
It’s really interesting when more than one person does the same book and we get different views of it.
Today I read “Wishes” by one of my favorite Canadian authors, Jean Little, illustrated by Genevieve Cote. I want to say I absolutely loved it, because Jean wrote it, but it wasn’t my favorite of her books by any means (I think she’s much better at middle grade than at picture books, but that’s just me.) For starters, it’s a rhyming text, which I am not keen on. Kids would likely enjoy it, I suppose. It’s built on the old saying “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride…” and she thinks up all kinds of wishes. My favorite was “If wishes were ice cream, our cones would be doubles.” Nothing wrong with that wish!!! 😉
I like that ice cream wish, Beth!
Also, it is pretty awesome when we review the same book…I love seeing different people’s takes on it too.
What a great day you two had! And what’s not to love about Mo! I am a huge fan and found this book to be truly laugh out loud funny! Gotta get my hands on a copy. Perhaps there is a contest I can enter for a signed copy… Hmmmm….
Anyway. Today I read MOSTLY MONSTERLY by Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Steven Magoon. It’s adorable! Poor Bernadette is a monster, but she also has a sweet side that doesn’t go over well with her classmates at monster school. However by the end Bernadette learns its ok to be different and be yourself. Adorbs!
I love Mostly Monsterly!
I got it off the Cheerios Box last year…you know, Spoonful of Stories?
My housemates know; it’s the one time of the year that I have copious amounts of Cheerios 🙂
Yeah, Mo is pretty funny 🙂
Hi Kathy!
I replied to your FB email with my mailing address so please let me know if you didn’t get it and I will send it again.
Today I read Halloween Motel by Sean Diviny and illustrated by Joe Rocco. There were a few things I really liked about this story of one family’s vacation trip to a creepy motel with some interesting guests. It was a rhyming book which I always enjoy reading. Next, the illustrations had a really cool “comic book” flair to them with the text printed in a variety to fonts to match the story’s mood.
The main character of the book is a little boy who decides to dress up for Halloween with his parents and go trick or treating through the halls of Halloween Motel. Its scary enough that Dad is dressed like Elvis and Mom is a baboon, but just wait until you see who hands out the “treats” in each of the rooms!
Scary fun for ages 4 through 8 and another good book to add to my collection…
Donna L Martin
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This book is so deliciously funny. When I first read it in Barnes & Noble, I ran over to Aaron’s table and made him stop what he was doing to read it. And then smiled each time I heard him giggle. (It was a lot.)
On this day in 31 in 31 history, I re-read LINNEA IN MONET’S GARDEN. It’s one of the first PBs that was given to me (and not my parents). I’ve wanted to travel to Monet’s Garden in Giverny ever since. (By the way, I read in PW that an English version is being launched again this year!)