Two books most-read in 2011
As I was sifting through the highlights of 2011, focusing on replaying the treasured memories and weeding out the not-so-pleasant ones, I wondered if I were to zero in on one book, and only one book each, that Ana and Og enjoyed reading the most this year, what would the two books be?
And I posed this same question to my Saffron Tree family and collected a fund of responses, which I have shared in Part 1 and Part 2 at ST.
This is a fun exercise for me as I have pretty much shared the much-loved books over the whole course of the year. So, I looked in on the more recent reads that I have not written about here and came up with the most-read-and-relished books, the most-talked-about books, the most-amusing books... well, in short, just two lovely books that they didn't tire of easily.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein
Ages 4+
The tattered old hardbound book, full of memories and character, a hand-me-down from her dad, was the one most often chosen from the bookshelf by the six year old at bedtime. It is one of my favorites as well as I am partial to poetry.
From Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout to Unicorn, Yipiyuk to Afraid Of The Dark, Sick to Crocodile's Toothache, this book is full of the absurd, the funny, the weird, and the charming, making for a delightful and amusing read, anytime, every time, as evidenced in our house.
Poems, poems, poems! That's what the 6 yo gravitated towards in 2011.
Flap Your Wings
by P.D. Eastman
Ages 4+
Reading this book became almost an obsession with the 3.75 year old. Every night at bedtime, for about 5 weeks, among the stack of 4 books for the bedtime-read carefully chosen by the pre-schooler, was nestled this irresistible (to him at least) volume.
A little boy walks along a path; he finds an egg without a nest; he finds a nest without an egg; he promptly puts the two together. And thus stars this wonderfully rooted story with Mr. and Mrs. Bird providing the comic and the heart-warming.
While the profound concepts of the nest getting crowded and the young one learning to fly away on his own are lost on the little one, it is an equally amusing book at face-value: from the time the enormous egg hatches and we find out the "baby bird" is a crocodile till the end when "Junior" (as he is fondly called by the Birds) desperately flaps his "wings" clumsily all the way down to the water below... and swims elegantly, feeling at home, the book entertains and provokes giggles.
[image source: amazon.com, google.com book search]
And I posed this same question to my Saffron Tree family and collected a fund of responses, which I have shared in Part 1 and Part 2 at ST.
This is a fun exercise for me as I have pretty much shared the much-loved books over the whole course of the year. So, I looked in on the more recent reads that I have not written about here and came up with the most-read-and-relished books, the most-talked-about books, the most-amusing books... well, in short, just two lovely books that they didn't tire of easily.
by Shel Silverstein
Ages 4+
The tattered old hardbound book, full of memories and character, a hand-me-down from her dad, was the one most often chosen from the bookshelf by the six year old at bedtime. It is one of my favorites as well as I am partial to poetry.
From Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout to Unicorn, Yipiyuk to Afraid Of The Dark, Sick to Crocodile's Toothache, this book is full of the absurd, the funny, the weird, and the charming, making for a delightful and amusing read, anytime, every time, as evidenced in our house.
Poems, poems, poems! That's what the 6 yo gravitated towards in 2011.
by P.D. Eastman
Ages 4+
Reading this book became almost an obsession with the 3.75 year old. Every night at bedtime, for about 5 weeks, among the stack of 4 books for the bedtime-read carefully chosen by the pre-schooler, was nestled this irresistible (to him at least) volume.
A little boy walks along a path; he finds an egg without a nest; he finds a nest without an egg; he promptly puts the two together. And thus stars this wonderfully rooted story with Mr. and Mrs. Bird providing the comic and the heart-warming.
While the profound concepts of the nest getting crowded and the young one learning to fly away on his own are lost on the little one, it is an equally amusing book at face-value: from the time the enormous egg hatches and we find out the "baby bird" is a crocodile till the end when "Junior" (as he is fondly called by the Birds) desperately flaps his "wings" clumsily all the way down to the water below... and swims elegantly, feeling at home, the book entertains and provokes giggles.
[image source: amazon.com, google.com book search]
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