The busyness of my week impacted our reading to a degree – we skipped our normal mid-week visit to the library. Anna was complaining that she doesn’t have any new books to read, but eventually settled down rereading her favorites of the week. I apologize that I was unable to visit all participants of WMCIR this time – I didn’t have a lot of discretionary online time lately. Hopefully next week is a bit better.
We bought this Treasury of Classic Stories during our last Sunday’s visit to Barnes & Noble. We were attracted both by beautiful illustrations and by the wide variety of stories, all centered around animals. Some of the stories are shortened or excerpted from longer books. Anna’s favorite story was Black Beauty, so we might get an original book for her soon. She also pulled our Alice in Wonderland book based on the excerpt in the collection, but quickly deemed it “too scary”. I personally always found Alice story “too weird”. 
We love books illustrated by Michael Emberley (who, by the way, is the son of Ed Emberley). You can say “like father like son” but not in the style. Anyway, this is a hilarious book that I think reflects the feelings of an older brother who is just barely out of toddler years himself pretty well. I love how the main character does have a change of heart about his baby brother in the second half of the story, but after reading it Anna has informed me firmly that she does not need a baby brother.
My Father’s Shop by Satomi Ichikawa is another great book on Morocco that I found in the library. It’s less “heavy” then The Butter Man (I reviewed that book here), and Anna was very entertained by the story’s premise – tourists visiting Moroccan market are all telling the young boy how the rooster sounds in their native language. There was no Russian, so she learned another “rooster language” from me – roosters in Russia say koo-kah-reh-koo.
I keep bringing Follow That Map by Scot Ritchie from the library from time to keep Anna’s knowledge of maps in her “working memory”. I have no idea why the book is recommended for grade 3-5 in Amazon official review, it’s perfectly appropriate for preschool crowd and gives very nice introduction to reading and following maps. Anna’s interest in geography has definitely perked up again, so this book was very popular this week.
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I find with "classics" that include many stories...some leave out lots of details, while others are really lengthy, but we still love them!
I'm definitely going to look for that Follow That Map book next time we head to the library!
I am going to look for Follow That Map and see if I can get my hands on it.
My kids always think the animal sounds in different languages are very funny.
Follow that Map sounds interesting. My daughter is interested in maps too.
I always worry that books about pesky younger siblings will make my daughter not want them too. I'd like her to keep an open mind on that.
I definitely need to get that geography book!
I hope work does slow down for you soon!
We've had a stress-filled week, but I'm happy that I was able to join in your linky today!
I never liked the original Black Beauty much, but there's a couple of sequels that are hard to find that are story collections that I liked, they're called something like "Black Beauty's Cousins" or something.
It's a great sign that Anna's ready for some new books! My girls get into ruts sometimes & want to read the same ones over and over and over again -- even if we have new ones to read. That being said, I do think Follow that Map would be a big hit here!
I've requested Follow that Map - this is one of TB's favorite topics and we're about to start using the Little Passports package that we just got. should be a good fit. Thanks for the review.
Nathan constantly grabs the same books at the library and they are usually more like "baby" books. I think he grabs them because they are sitting in this basket on the floor and he gravitates towards it. He has most of them memorized at this point.
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