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  • Help Yourself to These Books

    Help Yourself to These Books

    Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton is a about a cute little penguin who wants to be the helper for a nice, big hippo.  The penguin wants to go everywhere and do everything with the hippo, and be there for him all the time.  He keeps pestering the hippo and very nicely asks with a [...]

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  • You Can Never Have Too Many Books

    You Can Never Have Too Many Books

    Not A Box is my favorite non-toy toy book.  It’s about a clever rabbit that thinks of the different ways to play with a box.  He pretends it’s a racecar, a mountain, and an elephant.  The book even looks like a cardboard box, and the story and pictures are fun.  Not A Box is written [...]

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  • Booked on Senses

    Booked on Senses

    I like books that stimulate my senses, Especially ones with consequences. Books to touch, books to feel, I even have one on wheels. I like books with pulls and flaps, And books that make sounds like clap, tap, and zap. Even books with a scratch-n-sniff smell Have a story to tell. But my favorite books of all Are ones where my imagination is enthralled.

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  • The Dog Days of Summer Reading

    The Dog Days of Summer Reading

    Otto Goes to the Beach is a vibrant story about a dog named Otto who’s left at home all alone one day.  He gets lonely, and drives to the beach, like any normal dog would do.  But when he arrives at the beach, he’s lonely again because he can’t find any one to play the [...]

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  • Dads Deliver

    Dads Deliver

    I like the painted pictures in the board book, Daddy Cuddles, (by Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben.)  It’s about little animals and the different ways they cuddle with their big papa’s.  The baby baboon hanging upside down from his daddy’s belly is very silly, and it reminds me of going on top of my Da’s [...]

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  • Dealings With Feelings

    Dealings With Feelings

    This week’s trip to the library in search of books on feelings morphed into a selection of books about birds’ range of emotions. The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! is a fun little board book from the Smidgeon of Pigeon series by Mo Willems.  This bird has a little Renegade in him, just like me, so I [...]

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  • Teacher’s Pet

    Teacher’s Pet

    Before I could walk, I crawled around on all fours kind of  like a dog.  When Rah and I would go to a park, sometimes I would crawl right up to dogs my size and let them lick my face a little.  A friend of mine thought this was amusing, so she gave me one [...]

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  • I Feel The Need..Need to Read

    I Feel The Need..Need to Read

    These three books are awesome, if you’re a crazy driver-road builder-truck riding enthusiast like myself.  Pierre, the fox in Toot Toot Zoom! takes me on a wild car adventure over the mountain in search of friends.  He finds three friendly animals along the way and then merrily-scarily crash Pierre’s little red car into the mountain. [...]

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  • Clean Up Your Act With These Books

    Clean Up Your Act With These Books

    King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub is a funny story about a king who doesn’t want to get out of his ginormous bathtub for any activity all day long.  When people try to persuade him, he insists they join him in the tub instead.  They eat a big feast, battle, and dance in the bath from [...]

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  • Mom Knows the Best Mom Books

    Mom Knows the Best Mom Books

    Since Rah-Rah was unexpectedly sick this week, we read a lot of stories to pass the time indoors.  We read three distinctly different books about mamas.  The Renegades joined in the read alouds because they could relate to the characters in the stories.  The Dolly Llama picked out the story, Is Your Mama A Llama? [...]

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