Hi everyone!! It’s been a fun reading month, full of wolves and snow and adorable woodland creatures! We hit up our library at least twice a week, so I am not sharing all of the books that we read together, but I am sharing some of our favorites. I am also back to buying more books than I had been so some of these are from Wyatt’s own personal home library.
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A Thing Called Snow was pretty loved universally around here, by the whole family. Zommer’s books are oversized and just beautiful. In this one a fox and a hare, born in the spring and about to experience their first winter, are on the lookout for snow. My Winter City was more my favorite, not Wyatt’s. I just loved this look at what winter looks and feels like, all the little details from frost in the dad’s beard to slushy bus rides. Noisy Night was all Wyatt. This one was pretty cool because you feel like you are going up a floor in the building with every page because the residents all complain about the noise above them, until we get to the very top. It was pretty cute. And finally, probably the favorite book of the entire month, No Fuzzball! Any cat lover will be delighted by this one, and how Queen Fuzzball adjusts to a new little kitten face in her kingdom. It is absolutely adorable and also, made us chuckle. Definitely a keeper.
Wyatt loved Wolfboy. I knew he would – he considers himself a wolfboy half the time. And I could certainly relate to the grumpy feelings of being hangry!
We finally got some snow around here the other day, so Wednesday afternoon, after playing in the snow, we came in, had hot chocolate, and read a stack of snowy picture books. When It Starts to Snow and Blizzard were two of our favorites! When It Starts to Snow is a book that feels slightly poetic, with how it keeps asking the questions “What if it starts to snow? What do you do? Where do you go? These questions are answered by all of the little woodland animals and made us feel all cozy, because we knew what we were doing on our snowy day. Blizzard was fantastic- we both loved it! The author John Rocco tells his story about the blizzard of 1978, and the part he played in helping his neighbors and community, along with his memories of that time. We both really enjoyed it! It probably was our favorite right after No Fuzzball.
I Love Books in the Otter series is one of Wyatt’s go to grabs right now. He loves it because he too, loves books, just like Otter, and going to the library.
As for longer read alouds, we read the second in the Heartwood Hotel series, The Greatest Gift. Wyatt loves these books about the animals who work and live and stay at the Heartwood Hotel. After we finished up The Greatest Gift we moved on to Fantastic Mr. Fox – we are still reading this one and while things seem grim for the foxes right now, we have faith that Mr. Fox will come up with something to save his family!
Have you read any of these?
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Some of these look really cute! I’ll be so glad when Carson is reading!
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Wyatt’s reading is slow going but coming along! We read so much together and he loves it so much.
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Blizzard is such a cool (sorry) book , even for those of us who have never even gotten close to being in a blizzard in our lives.
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It is such a fun one!! I was 2 when the blizzard of 78 hit and I don’t really remember it, but I have seen photos of myself standing on the sidewalk framed on either side by high snowdrifts.
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Oh I really miss reading picture books! There are so many fabulous ones out there and it looks like Wyatt has found some great ones.
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I was just thinking about this the other day! I feel like that is on the horizon and I am not ready. LOL.
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A fun month of reading! Glad you stopped by the blog today…let me know if you decide which food you are:)
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It was a great month of reading. We just checked out a bunch more yesterday! I am still puzzling out which food I am. Maybe a trifle. Lol. I am not sure yet though.
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The only book of Wyatt’s that I’m familiar with is the Roald Dahl one. I love all of his books. Did you know Fantastic Mr. Fox is also a movie? As I recall (and I could be wrong), it doesn’t completely follow the story line. I think George Clooney voices Mr. Fox. One of my favorite picture book authors is Jan Brett. I really liked The Mitten. And, I think my favorite winter book has to be The Snowy Day. I remember buying it when I was in school from a Scholastic Book form! Oh, that dates me! I love how you are creating a reader in Wyatt! All of my kiddos and grandkiddos are readers, and I’m so glad!
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It is a movie! We have not watched it but we are planning on it once we finish up this book, which is very short. Lol.
I LOVE Jan Brett!! We did so much with Jan Brett in Kindergarten and 1st grade. I love her books. And we did a whole week of The Snowy Day one year too! That is a great book as well.
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Thank you for your review of these books. I have not read any of them but will check them out for James.
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My library only had one of these books! So aggravating. I’m going to call some other libraries in the area.
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Blizzard and No Fuzzball are my top two recs from this list!
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