We didn’t have any groundhog day books but I notice that Chapters has one for sale. I’ll have to check the clearance table and see if there are any there. Instead, we read a bunch of books from our “Reading Together at Home” collection from Discovery Toys:
- This is the Bear by Sarah Hayes about a little bear who ends up at the dump, only to be rescued by his boy and the dog (who “helped” him get into the garbage can in the first place);
- Itsy Bitsy Spider and Other Action Rhymes illustrated by Patrice Aggs;
- Walking Through the Jungle by Julie Lacome;
- The Train Ride by June Crebbin, a book that shows a little girl and her mom on a train heading to meet the grandma at the shore. Reid and I would like to do that, I think;
- The Grumpalump by Sarah Hayes, twice, and I don’t blame Reid because it an interesting book in terms of both the rhyme and the image and it takes a couple times to take it all in; and
- Night-Night, Knight and Other Poems, chosen by Michael Rosen;
and also:
- Bunny Magic! Tales from the Carrot Patch by Neil Connelly; and
- The Mitten, by Jan Brett, which has beautiful illustrations that tell the story and additional images that show what will happen next.
At bedtime, we read from Munschworks Treasury 1: The first Munsch treasury by Robert Munsch:
- Thomas’ Snowsuit, a story that makes me think of how stubborn my girl can be;
- I have to go, and who can’t relate to the kid who changes his mind;
- Paper Bag Princess – Prince Ronald really is a bum!