The Baby That Roared by Simon Puttock

I enjoyed this book about the "baby" that arrived on the doorstep of Mr. and Mrs. Deer.  Mr. and Mrs. Deer very much wanted a baby of their own so when one suddenly appeared.  However right from the start something was not quite right with this baby.  First the baby would not eat.  Then the baby smelled bad.  More and more problems kept coming up with this baby but every individual that came to help, seemed to disappear.  Finally Granny Bear was able to get to the bottom of the mystery....and by bottom I mean, bottom of the "baby's" stomach.  The "baby" was not really a baby!  Instead the baby was a MONSTER!!!  Upon being discovered the monster took off and was never seen again....or was he?  Very cute that young students will enjoy.

Text:  4 Buckeye leaves
Illustrations:  5 Buckeye leaves

Back....

After a month "off".....I am hoping to get back to reading and blogging...picked up some new ones today at the library with my NEWEST reading buddy.  I make no guarantees....things have changed a little in the last month....Still working through some of the kinks from a threesome to a foursome.....hopeful that sleep will return soon...We are working on it :) BUT.....

Over the last month we saw this....

And some of this....

 This....

 And this little thing....

And finally after a very, VERY long wait.....(over 5 years and 10 months to be exact)

But the best sight of all was this....(Minus the littlest one's tears....she was a little tired - over 26 hours of travel and about 4 hours of sleep - TOTAL - will do that to a little one....and two not so little ones!)

Will be making some return to the land of board books......but my older reading buddy still likes his books...the interesting challenge has been trying to divide two book times (one with the kid that would stay up reading books all night and the other that until only a few weeks ago had never seen a book and still throws them....)

Time Out For Monsters! byJean Reidy

A young boy is sitting on a stool....in the corner....in a very plain corner.  This corner is not new to him and after spending so much time here he has decided it needs a little color.  He needs a window in this corner....and from there the corner comes alive.  Neubecker's illustrations of vibrant, bright colors brings the corner to life.  Maybe a little TOO alive as far as mom is concerned.  After a few dinosaurs, flowers, a monster, etc. the boy has to return the corner to the plain corner.  Cute, short book which will have some kids gasping, in sheer horror that a child would do such a things, and other children nodding their heads, maybe possibly because they HAVE done such a thing.

Text:  4 Buckeye leaves
Illustrations:  5 Buckeye leaves