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Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life.

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter              By:  Wendi Silvano            Illustrated by:  Lee Harper

Ages:  Preschool through Second Grade

 

 

Our favorite turkey from Turkey Trouble is back.  This time Turkey wants to participate in the Easter egg hunt, but animals aren’t allowed.  With the help of the other farm animals, Turkey decides to disguise himself in order to go unnoticed and find one of the special eggs.  In the end, it turned out to be an “eggcellent” Easter for everyone.  This delightful book has great vocabulary and is just fun!

 

 

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Everybunny Count!

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life!

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

Everybunny Count!            By:  Ellie Sandall

Ages:  Toddlers through Kindergarten

 

We now have a new favorite counting book called Everybunny Count!.  These delightful bunnies are playing hide and seek with fox, and children will get to practice counting on each page.  Besides counting, children can also practice locating rhyming words.  The end is wonderful, with fox having a nice surprise for the bunnies.  This is a great Springtime read.

 

 

 

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Bear Needs Help

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life.

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

Bear Needs Help            By:  Sarah S. Brannen

Ages:  Toddlers through Kindergarten

 

This delightful story doesn’t have a lot of words, but the pictures do a wonderful job of telling the story.  Bear has a problem, but has difficulty finding someone willing to help him out.  This story is perfect for predicting and using the pictures to understand why Bear needs help.  This would be a great book to read to children who are beginning to learn how to tie their shoes.

 

 

 

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Jamaica’s Find

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life.

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

Jamaica’s Find            By:  Juanita Havill            Illustrated by:  Anne Sibley O’Brien

Ages:  Preschool through Second Grade

 

 

Jamaica stopped at the park to play and found a red hat and a lost stuffed dog.  She took the hat to the lost and found, but took the dog home without trying to find the owner.  She struggled with her decision, but later finds satisfaction in returning the dog to its owner.  In the end, Jamaica makes a new friend.  This is a wonderful story about the rewards of doing the right thing.

 

 

 

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One Red Sock

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life.

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

One Red Sock            By:  Jennifer Sattler

Ages:  Toddler through Kindergarten

 

 

One Red Sock is a new book on the market and a must have for young children.  The purple hippo in this delightful story cannot find a match to her red sock.  She wants so much to be perfect and match, but it doesn’t work out for her.  In the end her socks didn’t match, but she was happy anyway.  The child can help the reader figure out what happened to the other red sock.  This wonderful book can help children with color identification.  One Red Sock is now one of our favorites!

 

 

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Love From the Crayons

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life.

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

Love From the Crayons            By:  Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

Ages:  Toddlers through Kindergarten

 

 

The Crayons are back!  This is a great book to read around Valentine’s Day, but is good for any time of the year.  The Crayons use color to describe the many forms of love with perfect pictures to match.  This is a great book to review colors with younger children and color words for preschoolers and children in kindergarten.

 

 

 

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The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life.

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog            By:  Mo Willems

Ages:  Toddler through First Grade

 

Pigeon is very excited about finding a hot dog until he runs into Duckling.  Pigeon gets very frustrated with all of the questions that Duckling asks and really wants to keep the hot dog for himself.  Guilt finally comes into play and Duckling comes up with the perfect solution.  This book is about problem solving and sharing.

 

 

 

 

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Patty’s Top 10 Posted Read Alouds

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What are my top 10 books from the ones that we have highlighted in our books and Blog?  That’s a difficult question.  I like all of the books for various reasons.  Some of them I enjoy because of the beautiful language; others for their outstanding illustrations; some because they can be used to reinforce the many values that we teach our children; and still others because they are just fun stories to share with a child snuggled close to you.  So with those thoughts floating through my mind, I have decided on my personal top 10 books:

Book #10 

 

 

 

Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows That Type is a humorous story about cows negotiating with the farmer for blankets to keep them warm.

 

 

 

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The Snowy Day

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This Blog is designed for the parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children.  Each post will highlight a great book that all children should hear, with tips to enrich beginning reading skills.  You will also find fun recipes that go along with each story.  Enjoy reading and cooking with the children in your life.

*Read to the children in your life every day.  You are giving them a gift that will last a lifetime!

A Snowy Day             By:  Ezra Jack Keats

Ages:  Toddlers through Kindergarten

 

This is a classic story about a child’s adventures on a snowy day.  Peter does all of the things that children love to do on snowy days.  He makes tracks in the snow, makes snow angels and builds a snowman, but he learns that you can’t save the snow in your pocket for the next day.  This lovely book was a Caldecott winner for its illustrations.  Children will enjoy sharing this snowy day with Peter.

 

 

 

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The Mitten

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The Mitten            Adapted and illustrated by:  Jan Brett

Ages:  Preschool through Second Grade

Jan Brett is an amazing story teller and illustrator, as can be seen in this amazing tale of the white mitten that got lost in the snow.  The lost mitten becomes a refuse for a number of animals trying to stay warm, but it eventually makes its way back to its owner.  Ms. Brett always provides side pictures in her books to help the readers predict what is coming next.  The Mitten provides opportunities for vocabulary development and sequencing.  It is just a beautiful winter experience that children will love.

 

 

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