"Story"

It's been a busy summer! Emily has been busy walking running, exploring and talking! Mommy has been busy chasing the happy little scamp! Which means we have been having too much fun to blog. (Also translated as Mama is exhausted!)

Now that Emily can talk, we've been having even more fun reading. One of her words is "story" or "store-ee." She points to a book and says "store-ee" and then does the sign for please. (Makes this storytime mom very proud. Sniff.)

Here's one of our favorites: Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton

Me: A cow says...

Emily: Moo!

M: A sheep says...

E: Baaaa

M: Three singing pigs say la, la, la! "No, No!" You say...

E: NO!

M: Pigs say...

E: Kk! [oink in Emily-speak]

M: ...little dogs go..

E: Ffff! [Woof]

M: ...and cats and kittens say...

E: Eow [Meow]

M: Quack, says the duck

E Kk! [quack]

M: ...a horse says...

E: Nay

M: It's quiet now, what do you say?

E: Store-ee

40 Favorites

In honor of my 40th birthday, I am taking a trip down memory lane. Here's a list of 40 of my favorite children's books, in no particular order. They are books I loved as a child or that I discovered later as a child-at-heart. I wonder if any will be on my daughter's list of favorites when she is my age?

 

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak     
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci
The Bearer of Gifts by Stephen Kenneth
The Hero and the Crown series by Robin McKinley
The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
Witch's Sister series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

Alfred Hitchcock's The Three Investigators series by various authors
Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
Little Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennett
The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye
Julius by Syd Hoff
The Fire Cat by Esther Holden Averill
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Krauss
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Eyes of the Amaryllis by Natalie Babbitt
I Love You, Stinkyface by Lisa McCourt
Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James Howe
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
So You Want to be a Wizard? series by Diane Duane
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. La Fevers
The Loathsome Dragon by Davis Weisner
When the Tripods Came series by John Christopher



* FYI The links are the official websites of the authors.