Some really cute books picked out by my coworker this week!
Puppy, Puppy, Puppy
Julie Sternberg, illustrated by Fred Koehler
ISBN: 9781629794662
Adorable bi-racial infant (and exhausted parents) trail around after a rambunctious puppy that beautifully shows the potentials of a strong bond between kids and pets.
Spot Goes to the Park (lift the flap)
Eric Hill
ISBN: 0399218335
Spot is a perennial favorite, especially so because the stories are so short and simplistic. We always have a lot of babies and very young or new toddlers, and a short interactive story like this sets them up for success.
Mister Bud Wears the Cone
Carter Goodrich
ISBN: 9781442480889
Bud and Zorro are pets together, and when Bud licks a hot spot, he has to wear the dreaded cone all day while the people are away. Zorro is a horrid tease about it, and the cone is awkward and clumsy, and by the end of the day poor Bud thinks he is a very bad dog indeed. The ending is upbeat and sweet, and Zorro gets his in the endpages.
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Tuesday Storytime: Pets
A really stellar lineup from my coworker today: a trio of adorable animal books.
Zorro Gets an Outfit
Carter Goodrich
ISBN: 9781442435353
Zorro is an adorable pug dog, and he has been put into a superhero outfit, and the other dogs all laugh at him. He's inconsolable until another dog at the dog park shows up in a pirate outfit and just so happens to be a really cool dog - who likes Zorro's outfit! A good story about friendship and identity and feeling shame and pride.
Have You Seen My New Blue Socks
Eve Bunting, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier
ISBN: 9780547752679
Eve Bunting is channeling her Dr Seuss here, with a cute rhyming (perhaps just a slight bit tooo cutely rhyming) quick story about a forgetful and perhaps somewhat disorganized duck who has lost their new blue socks somewhere. A progressively-further-unlaced shoe provides a tiny visual clue about the location of the socks as the story goes on.
Papillon Goes to the Vet (The Very Fluffy Kitty)
A. N. Kang
ISBN: 9781484728819
This is the cutest book about a very fluffy kitty with a very unrealistic story of what happens at a vet's office, but it's ok, because it's adorable. Papillon is soooo fluffy that he floats! Which is quite fun, until he accidentally ingests a cat toy and has to spend the night at the vet. Very low-key explanations of how Papillon feels less than well, which keeps the very lighthearted feeling flowing through even at the vet.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Summer Reading Program: Animal Heroes
Last Program!
Between the summer activities, and me missing so many of these programs this year, it just seems like the summer has flown by. Unreal that it's the last program already.
Two Bobbies
Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery, illustrated by Jean Cassels
ISBN: 9780802797544
Vaguely sepia-toned illustrations are gritty and lifelike, often with a distancing view.
Another true story, this time about a pair of bob-tailed friends (one cat and one dog) who were left behind in the evacuation of post-Katrina flooded New Orleans. The story takes a biographical tone, and covers the pair from the hypothetical conjecture (their life before, their journeys before they were rescued) to their rescue, rehabilitation, move to a Utah rescue facility, and their re-homing with a dedicated lady who learned about them via a television broadcast. A twist halfway through made some of the kids actually gasp when I read it, which I think is a first for me.
Next up we did Bertie Was a Watchdog again, because I might never again get the chance to bark for 45 seconds straight inside a library without getting hospitalized.
The Hermit Crab
Carter Goodrich
ISBN: 9781416938927
A shy hermit crab finds a strange shell, and unwittingly becomes a community hero.
This is an odd but cute little story. Our hero is so shy and retiring that he doesn't even participate in community events, but prefers to watch them quietly and contentedly from the sidelines. One day, he discovers a strange segmented "shell" (the top half of a superhero figure) that he loves, so he puts it on immediately. Unknown to him, while he was happily re-shelling, a lobster-trap has descended from the surface and trapped the flounder. He returns after the rest of the community retreats in terror, and they watch in awe as this heroic figure wanders around the terrifying trap for a few scant moments before banishing it back to the surface, with the flounder safely left behind. The resulting parade and accolades scares the hermit so much that he hides deep inside the new shell, and escapes as soon as possible. Really cute, and an interesting complement to another story I read recently: Robert Venditti's newest juvenile fiction / graphic novel crossover Miles Taylor and The Golden Cape.
And that's all she wrote for Heroes this year - we are DONE. We'll be back next year with the next batch of books on whatever topic comes around next.
Between the summer activities, and me missing so many of these programs this year, it just seems like the summer has flown by. Unreal that it's the last program already.
Two Bobbies
Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery, illustrated by Jean Cassels
ISBN: 9780802797544
Vaguely sepia-toned illustrations are gritty and lifelike, often with a distancing view.
Another true story, this time about a pair of bob-tailed friends (one cat and one dog) who were left behind in the evacuation of post-Katrina flooded New Orleans. The story takes a biographical tone, and covers the pair from the hypothetical conjecture (their life before, their journeys before they were rescued) to their rescue, rehabilitation, move to a Utah rescue facility, and their re-homing with a dedicated lady who learned about them via a television broadcast. A twist halfway through made some of the kids actually gasp when I read it, which I think is a first for me.
Next up we did Bertie Was a Watchdog again, because I might never again get the chance to bark for 45 seconds straight inside a library without getting hospitalized.
The Hermit Crab
Carter Goodrich
ISBN: 9781416938927
A shy hermit crab finds a strange shell, and unwittingly becomes a community hero.
This is an odd but cute little story. Our hero is so shy and retiring that he doesn't even participate in community events, but prefers to watch them quietly and contentedly from the sidelines. One day, he discovers a strange segmented "shell" (the top half of a superhero figure) that he loves, so he puts it on immediately. Unknown to him, while he was happily re-shelling, a lobster-trap has descended from the surface and trapped the flounder. He returns after the rest of the community retreats in terror, and they watch in awe as this heroic figure wanders around the terrifying trap for a few scant moments before banishing it back to the surface, with the flounder safely left behind. The resulting parade and accolades scares the hermit so much that he hides deep inside the new shell, and escapes as soon as possible. Really cute, and an interesting complement to another story I read recently: Robert Venditti's newest juvenile fiction / graphic novel crossover Miles Taylor and The Golden Cape.
And that's all she wrote for Heroes this year - we are DONE. We'll be back next year with the next batch of books on whatever topic comes around next.
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