Not the most original of themes, but when you have cute books, what are you gonna do?
Finding Spring
Carin Berger
ISBN: 9780062250193
It's time to hibernate and wait for Spring, but little bear is waaay too keyed up for that. As soon as Mother falls asleep, he's off and searching for Spring. He finds something amazing, decides THAT is Spring, tucks some into his coat and heads back to his den for his long nap. When he wakes up, the "spring" in his coat is all melted, but when he heads back to where he found it, he finds spring for real. Lots of fun interactions with busy forest animals, and really cute illustrations.
Our middle "book" is actually a two-fer, with two small boardbooks tucked between the longer reads:
Funny Bunnies (boardbook)
Piggy Toes Press, 2011
ISBN: 9781615245949
Cute little rhymes on succeeding spreads with colorful backgrounds (one of my littlest ones was DETERMINED to announce the colors of all the backgrounds, including - with great pride - "MaGENta." Adorable all the way around.
A Little Book about SPRING (Leo Lionni's Friends series, boardbook)
Leo Lionni and Julie Hamilton
ISBN: 9780525582274
Frederick the mouse and his friends pledge allegiance and undying love to the season in vogue, with colorful backgrounds and springtime activities cutely (and very briefly) described.
Silver Seeds
Paul Paolilli and Dan Brewer, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
ISBN: 0670889415
Because April IS Poetry Month, y'all. This is a sweet little hard to find book that takes the first letters of various spring topics and uses them to create free-form poetry about that subject. So, for short:
Sliding through the window
Underneath the door
Nudging us out to play
makes SUN. Get it? That's pretty much all there is, but the paintings are luminous, and the choices for verse are moving and sweet and powerful. I am not really a poetry person, but I love all of these, and I love that I CAN love them and introduce them to kids with a clear and bright conscience so hopefully they learn to love poetry themselves too.
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