Woo-hoo!
Day 10!
Did you ever read CDC? by William Steig?
I remember LOVING it as a kid!
And I really like Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld.
So when I saw this book on sale at Hicklebee’s,
I had to scoop it up!
And give a copy away too!
Title: Wumbers
Published by: Chronicle Books, 2012
Written by: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrated by: Tom Lichtenheld
Words: 215
Pages: 40
In one word: Wonder4L!
In one sentence: You’ll have fun reading and decoding along with this clever little book, and perhaps thinking up some wumbers of your own!
Favorite pages:
Likes:
- It is like a book and a game at the same time!
- The illustrations are awesome. The pastels make them feel so lively and give a great texture to them.
- There’s a little story in each spread!
- It’ll inspire you to try to make up your own wumbers!
Learns:
- Think outside the box when it comes to ideas!
- Look to the past for ideas too!
So this book is the next giveaway.
You’re already entered if you’ve been commenting.
I’ll compile the books from Day 6 all the way up until today.
And a winner will be announced tomorrow!
Thanks again to everyone for reading and sharing along.
This has been really fun!
Until next time,
KE and SS
Hi ke read glass slipper gold sandal which i thought was very creative in combining the story of cinderella from all parts of the world. Also read knitting nell ( inspired by your book knit your bit) and then we also read fine as we are about a little frog who goes from being an ” onlychild” to having many “siblings” i love checking out or at least seeing if the lbrary carries the books u and others are reading. Hope u r doing well.
That book sounds great, Casi!
I’m so happy that you love reading about the books I’m reading, as well as others!
Hope you’re doing great too. How long until that only child isn’t so “only” anymore?
After you posted about “Vampirina Ballerina” yesterday, today I read Vampire Baby” by Kelly Bennett.
Time to get back to some sweet pumpkin and leaf autumn stories and away from spooky zombies and vampires!
I think you’re looking at the Cybils’ noms list. 😉
Never heard of Vampire Baby. I’ll have to check it out 🙂
I read “The Remarkable Farkle McBride” by John Lithgow. This was his first book for children. I checked it out at the library.
Farkle has a gift for music, although he doesn’t seem to last more than a year at any of the instruments he masters. Of course he eventually figures it out. It was a bit hard seeing this character smash instruments or just toss them into the garbage or lake, although the illustrations by C.F. Payne are stunning.
When I see that a celebrity has written a book, I’m suspicious of some conspiring going on all in the name of selling books. Can the celebrity write a good book?
Well, Lithgow can act. He can write songs and sing. And YES, he can write! This is the first of his books that I read, and I loved it! I cringed at the smashing and tossing, too, Chris. lol
This one sounds great!
I agree with the tossing of the instruments…things like that are fun, but you never know what a kid is going to think after seeing that.
I’ll have to look for this one at the library.
Thanks!
I just read BEAR AND BEE by Sergio Ruzzier, 2013, Disney-Hyperion Books (again, not listed in AR BookFinder, but VERY few words). This is a delightful book for the very young. They are bound to giggle.
Bee offers some honey to hungry Bear, but Bear has heard that bees are monstrous — big with sharp teeth and long claws. He has never met a bee. Bee replies that those are his own traits, and when he realizes that indeed they are, he becomes terrified that he’s a bee. I won’t tell any more of the story.
Pictures are cute, and the story is funny with a happy ending, but the story flow has a few hiccups. Feels a bit like the text was too skimpy to fill a picture book’s pages, and a bit more time in the editing could have benefited the flow and rhythm. (Yes, I would be a very demanding editor. haha)
The thing that’s most adorable? Bear’s shoes. 🙂
I’ve read Bear and Bee.
To me, it almost felt like it would have done better as a board book.
Maybe there is a board book version of it?
But I DO LOVE the illustrations,
and the story is very cute and clever.
Today I read “Henry In Love” by Peter McCarty. It’s about an anthropomorphic cat named Henry falling in love with Chloe, a girl in his class who happens to be a rabbit. It’s a sweet book with very simple illustrations and text. I love how the illustrations are minimalistic in places. There are things they don’t show, leaving them to the reader’s imagination. A good example is the playground equipment. In five different illustrations, they show the animal children playing at recess against plain white backgrounds until Chloe climbs up on a jungle gym to hide from Henry, who’s “it” for a game of tag. There is also a very important part of the book, which I won’t give away, that is only shown, not told. This book is helping me learn more and more that for children’s authors, less is often more.
Good point about less is more, Lily!
I’ve read this one and really loved it.
Thanks for reminding me about it!
Today I read “Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend,” by Melanie Watt.
Scaredy Squirrel is one popular guy 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
I recently read Goodnight iPad a few days ago, a modern-day parody of Goodnight Moon and today I found Goodnight Goon on the kids’ bookshelf. I forgot we had this one. This one is a petrifying parody. What I love about this book are the little details in the illustrations just like the original. There are so many things happening on a page spread.
Goodnight Goon! Sounds so fun!
Today I read “The Croaky Pokey” by Ethan Long, Holiday House, 2011. It’s a clever take on the Hokey Pokey with frogs, so we “Hop the Croaky Pokey as we chase a fly around, Right in the froggy’s mouth!”
The ending is quite funny!
Sounds funny, Debra!
I love when books put a spin on a classic.
I’ll look for this one!
Today I read This Moose is Mine by Oliver Jeffers. I generally like his stuff (his book Stuck is hilarious) and so I was hoping to like this book more than I did. It was a cute idea and some of the scenes were priceless, but I felt it was a bit wordy and long. Plus, I was left wondering what the point was.
I read this one a while ago.
I love Oliver Jeffers…he’s so quirky and he’s not afraid to show it!
His illustrations and so lively and joyful.
How long was it words-wise?
I’ll have to check this one out again to see if I agree.
I really enjoy the clever books that Amy Krouse Rosenthal writes.
I read WARNING: DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOK by Adam Lehrhaupt and illustrated by Matthew Forsythe. It’s a book of very few words, written in 2nd person to involve the reader, and is a strong example of the power of the page turn.
I bought that one this summer and really enjoyed it!
I’ll have to do a blogpost on it soon…
maybe a 31 in 31 post.
Adam’s really funny!
We read a book my son brought home from the school library: “Maybe a Bear Ate It” by Robie Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley. It’s about a cat who loses his bedtime book and imagines all the things that might have happened to it (the things involve his stuffed animals coming to life). The story-line is not particularly “fresh” and is carried quite a bit by the illustrations. It could be considered in the category of an entertaining early reader. Kids liked it enough to read it twice in a row.
Oh, an early reader.
I love those!
This one sounds fun.
Michael Emberley’s illustrations are always fun.
Sounds like a silly kind of story!
Wumbers is a clever book!
Since Goodnight iPad was listed by someone, I found it on We Give Books.com. So I just read that, too. A great parody!
I love parodies!
And now I think I’m going to have to officially check this one out.
Well, after NaNoWriMo and PiBoIdMo in November.
So, in December 🙂
Woohoo! Thank you for this book Kathy! I really like the sound of the Wumbers and haven’t read it yet. Just come back from off-line-with-sick-kids-land to realize that tomorrow I win this book (which is today of course) (Or I must have ESP).
The book I read was ‘This is not my hat’ by Jon Klassen. I bought it as I have been waiting for ever to get it from my library. I am glad I did. I like the simple story and love the illustrations.
You’re welcome, Yvonne!
I love that book too.
Jon Klassen is so talented and so humble (I’ve met him a few times)
and I can’t wait for more books to come out by him!