More Koosh ball painting today, a light lunch, more cleaning in the playroom. Then an hour and a quarter break to cuddle and read.
The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins - the words are few but the illustrations - of wind picking up an umbrella, a balloon, a hat, a shirt, a kite… and so on, then dropping them back all mixed up - get JediBoy to laugh out loud every time.
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney - what a sweet tale of the Lupine Lady: “You must do something to make the world more beautiful,” Alice’s artist grandfather tells her.
Turtle Tale by Frank Asch - a silly tale of a turtle who first decides “a wise turtle” would keep his head inside all the time, then changes his mind and tries to keep his head outside all the time, and finally realizes “a wise turtle” will keep it in sometimes, and sometimes out.
DK Reader: Lego Castle Under Attack - it’s illustrated with Lego knights. It needs nothing else to place it at the top of JediBoy’s must-read list.
“Let’s Get a PUP!” Said Kate by Bob Graham - when we first got this book, I fell in love with the honest illustrations of a comfortably messy family, where Mom, Dad and Kate all sport similar hairstyles and sit unashamedly on the toilet. The story is a nice one too - the family goes to the Rescue Shelter to get a dog, and winds up going back for a second dog who also won their hearts.
A Week of Raccoons by Gloria Whelan - this is a longer book of the build-it-up and take-it-back variety. An older couple is bothered by raccoons and traps them one at a time, to drive them “up the hill to the old apple tree and down the hill to the bridge that crossed the stream and past the little white schoolhouse and the Busby’s farm and into the piny woods.” The same words and similar map-like picture are repeated for each raccoon. Once five raccoons are in the piny woods, they pool their memories to reconstruct how to get back to the original house - only, in a twist, each raccoon finds a reason to stay at one of the landmarks along the way.
The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater - JediBoy now calls this book just “Plumbean” - the main character.
Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats - this book is very timely, as we’re looking ahead to JediBoy’s little sister. In the book, Peter is upset that all his old things are being painted pink and handed over to his new little sister. He tries to keep his chair for his own - only to discover that it’s too small and he’s ready for a grown-up chair.
Sand Cake by Frank Asch - another Bear book. This time, the Bear family is at the beach and the father shows how he can make a cake “from eggs, flour and milk” at the beach by drawing a chicken, wheat and a cow in the sand. Baby Bear “eats” it by drawing himself around the final cake, showing it’s in his stomach.
The Magic School Bus: Butterfly and the Bog Beast - JediBoy loves the MSB. This one is about different defenses that butterflies have, including camouflage and eyespots.
Fisher-Price: Good Morning, Farm - this is a very simple book showing the Little People farm and animals. JediBoy has liked it since he was quite young.
My Sports Bag Book by Kathleen Daly - this is an older Golden shape book, shaped like a sports bag with a handle. Two kids are given a magic sports bag, which provides them with skateboards, fishing equipment, fins and snorkels, a frisbee, baseball equipment, ice skates, marbles and a jump rope.
Once my voice gave out, JediBoy realized he hadn’t watched a movie in a few days, so he put in the dvd that the Fourth of July Firecracker brought him - Liberty’s Kids: The First Fourth of July. We’re watching together while I type and read online.
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