With Grandma Joyce and Aunt Karin in town, there was lots of book reading being done:
- Franklin and Me: My first record fo favourite things, personal facts and special memories by Paul Bourgeois, which Grandma Joyce reported that Reid loved. We’ll have to fill it in since we picked it up at the church sale and it was blank;
- A Busy Day for a Good Grandmother by Margaret Mahy, Aunt Karin read this one, I chose it based on the image of the grandma on a dirt bike pictured on the cover;
- Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom! by Margaret Mahy, a book with a great message about losing yourself in music with lots of animals, too;
- Moo in the Morning by Barbara Maitland, a funny story about a city family longing for the quiet life on a farm but it turns out the farm has it’s own noises;
- The Maestro Plays by Bill Martin Jr (twice);
- Down in the Woods at Sleepytime by Carole Lexa Schaefer;
- The Fairytale Cake by Mark Sperring, a great book on the strength of all of the fairytale characters in the illustrations and the challenge it poses to me to figure out which fairytale the characters belong to and what the tale was;
- Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong, a book that moves along principally based on the illustrations and the only text is on street signs
- Duck by David Lloyd, a book from the church sale that Aunt Karin and Reid liked but which I found to be depressing because the grandma only kisses the little boy when he says the right word. Aunt Karin says that I am melodramatic; and
- The Singing Chick by Victoria Stenmark, a book that has the potential to go very badly since it is about the chick being eaten by a fox and the fox being eaten by a bear and so on.