Sturdy For Common Things

National Library Week

Since this week is National Library Week, I decided to put together an extended list of my favorite read aloud books about the library and reading. A few weeks back, I read these picture books for Library Day Storytime and recommend you check out those selections as well. All are a great way to share [...]

Reading Together

Been awhile since I’ve posted about what L and I are reading lately.. Here are our most frequently read books over the past few weeks: Winnie the Pooh’s 1, 2, 3 by Ernest H. Shepard The more recent character obsession, Winnie the Pooh. We love reading the older picture books illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. [...]

Reading Together: Board Books

There have been a few… how should I say… incidences recently between L and her books. The last was of major destruction. With a library book. That we now own. To fend off future sabotage, if she wants to look at books it has to be under heavy surveillance. Or… It has to be a [...]

Reading Together

Today’s Reading Together is a long one! There were too many good ones I didn’t want to leave any in the dark. And before I start the list… thought I’d share this article from the Washington Post on how to choose books for kids and teens. What resources do you use to pick out books [...]

Reading Together: Mock Caldecott Awards

This edition of “Reading Together” is going to be a little different. I’m not just going to go over a few of our favorite books lately. For this post, the picture books below are a few of our favorites from this year’s Kansas City Mock Caldecott & King Awards list. Next Tuesday, I will be [...]

Reading Together

For this past Sunday’s Winter Storytime, I had a reeeeaallly hard time selecting books. There were just too many good one’s about winter and/or snow to choose from. So good that we’ve continued reading a handful of them of them at our house. Here are the honorable mentions that didn’t quite make the storytime cut: [...]

Reading Together

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin, illustrations by James Dean I’m going to have to buy a copy of this book for LBD for xmas. Not only is it fun to read, and the illustrations hysterical, but she already knows the colors red, blue, and brown from reading it. Perfect [...]

Reading Newbies Together

I was off from work last Sunday, so Storytime Sunday will resume next week. In the meantime, here are few notable and NEW picture books LBD and I have been reading lately… The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse by Eric Carle You can view an excerpt from the book here. We like the green [...]

Reading Together: Good Night, World

The night is starting to make an appearance earlier and earlier each day. A true sign to the end of summer. One perk of being a librarian is first dibs on the newbie books that haven’t even made their way on the shelves yet. Good Night, World by Willa Perlman with pictures by Carolyn Fisher [...]

Reading Together: Summer

It’s an ordinary day when I show up at home with a tumbling pile of books after work. My choices inspired by favorite books of children I see day in and day out at the library, books suggested by my fellow coworkers (the know-all when it comes to great children’s books), or books I happen [...]