Truth is, I've been so busy juggling various duties in addition to the usual behind-the-scenes work that I haven't been able to devote time to the blog or vlogging book reviews.
I had been planning for a while to bring my colleagues in on this -- Patrick and Sarah's ALA reports from July started it -- and figured now was a great time for it.
We're kicking off with a great post about our children's books from Laura Jacobi!
One of the pleasures of being responsible for the Education collection is buying books to support the Children’s Literature curriculum. They’re short, so you can actually read them! And they’re often really cute. Here are three winners:
Being a traditionalist, I was prepared to turn my nose up at Rubia and the Three Osos by Susan Middleton Elya and illustrated by Melissa Sweet. How could anyone improve on Goldilocks and the Three Bears? But this is such a jaunty, lighthearted, little bilingual girl:
Little Miss Rubia, curls made of oro.And the end has a charming twist in which Rubia departs from the selfish toad character of Goldilocks. You’ll love it!
“A tiny casita, for me? ¡La adoro!”
April and Esme, Tooth Fairies by Bob Graham recounts the adventures of two kid fairies on their first foray through modern England. They fly through the night skies, into Daniel’s house and to his bedroom. Oh, no! Daniel has put his tooth in a glass of water, just as Grandma does with her teeth! Then he wakes up! What to do? Text Mommy Fairy for help! Once the mission’s accomplished, will they avoid the temptation of taking Grandma’s teeth too? Find out!
If you don’t have your own, borrow a first or second grader and read We are in a Book by Mo Willems. Piggie the pig and Gerald the elephant (who contradicts everything you’ve read about pachyderm intelligence) sense someone looking at them and realize, “A reader is reading us!” They then have barrels of laughs making the reader say words -- until the book ends. Totally silly.
You can find these and lots of other picture books in the Library General Stacks in the number 800. Don’t let the Children’s Lit. students have all the fun.
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