There's a second one, too, 'Chu's First Day at School', which Ella loves
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Almost anything by Mercer Mayer is k-classic.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
Anyone got a good book that teaches the value of apologies? Got a precocious preschooler who would rather pretend to faint than apologize for anything.
― how's life, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
Mercer Mayer's "I'm Sorry
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618W5M4AQML._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
which also specifically gets at how apologies don't mean much if you don't follow through on them
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
Cool! We haven't delved into Mercer Mayer yet, either.
― how's life, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
love his style, kind of too prolific for his own good, almost makes it hard to pick out the "best".
also after someone pointed this out to me I can't unsee it:http://i.imgur.com/Zfj3x7S.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
"I dress myself!"
El Deafo by Cece Bell is a wonderful graphic novel for children ages 6-12 (imo). It's an autobiographical story about a little deaf girl/bunny. Great gift idea.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQkhVoKUcAAKqss.jpg
― everything, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
my daughter *loves* that book
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
Yeah mine has read it about 20 times and so have all her friends.
― everything, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
god I hate these "If You Give a ____ a ____" books, would prefer it if they were stuffed with completely random non-sequiturs instead of this cutesy "aw the animal thinks its people" nonsense.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Oh I hate those too. But not as much as I hate Pete the Cat books. I can't understand the popularity of these things at all.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
you aren't supposed to like kids books. your kids are supposed to like them.
― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
my 4yo for a book of fairy tales and she asked me to read her hansel and gretl which i did and even tho i knew how much disturbing material was in it i was still a little taken aback. the wife is frank about wanting to ditch her kids in the forest (and we had an interesting conversation about why she isn't called their mother but her husband is called their father), the dad resists but ultimately she nags him into essentially abandoning his children for death. of course the witch tries to cannibalize both of the children, not to mention that the entire story takes place against a background of terrible deprivation + acute poverty. but i've read scholars who believe that the gruesomeness was necessary (bettelheim particularly iirc) for kids to process complicated details about the world and themselves. and my daughter loved it so much she wanted me to immediately read it again (despite it being a fairly lengthy story). she had a lot of questions too and she found the cannibalism elements hilarious. she also noted without my prodding that the witch was obviously the wife from the beginning and i kvelled bc i agree that it is the subtext - psychologically if not literally attributable to the text - and i think it was a v astute observation.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
then we read puss and boots and i think we both found it significantly less stimulating
what no "Jew in the Thorns"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
alas this version of collected stories (not just grimm) did not include it
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 22:38 (eight years ago) link
Never realised that about the witch, now feel foolish
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Gargoyles-Eve-Bunting/dp/0395968879/
My new favorite one to read.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link