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Tell Me What to Read: Picture Book Edition

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So. . . the last round of Tell Me What to Read just about killed me.

I haven’t even bothered to write about The Dante Club because, believe me, you do not want to read my review of it which would basically boil down to “took me eight hundred check-outs to finally finish the stupid thing.”

Also, to be completely honest, I finally just checked out the abridged audio and just powered through it on double speed. (And there was this one murder (several occur in the book) that was, I kid you not, one of the most graphic, horrible descriptions I’ve ever read of a dead body. I just had to press the “skip 15 seconds ahead” button a couple of times before I threw up). I think you might guess that I would not recommend this book.

It was a rough period of my life, and I’d prefer not to speak of it again.

So, let’s make things easy on me, shall we? I need low-commitment right now and that’s what I love about picture books. Even if it’s terrible, it’s never going to take more than about 30 minutes to get through.

Leave me the title of one of your favorite picture books and I’ll read 10 (or more if I’m feeling very very ambitious, which, I probably won’t) of them, selected at random. And then I’ll share my favorites. Get excited.

Ella thinks this is way better too. And it’ll be a fun little project for the two of us before Baby #2 makes her appearance.

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  1. I am really looking forward to seeing this list! My recommendation is The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis. It is a super sweet story about two sisters who find a creature called a bog baby. The illustrations are some of the most enchanting I have ever seen!

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  2. My favorite picture book right now is Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French. I think I may love it even more than my child does, which is saying something.

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  3. Our favorite picture book for 2-3 year olds is Where is the Green Sheep? For 4-5 year olds I get excited when they pick The Adventures of Bert by Allen Ahlberg. (Or the next one, A Bit More Bert.) It's just a fun one to read out loud. It is out of print but I first found it at the library. For girls, I love Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor. I resisted the Fancy Nancy epidemic, but she has really great parents, something you don't see in a lot of kids' books. For an activity with older kids, I love Stone Soup.

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  4. Sorry I have one more! If you haven't read Fanny's Dream by Caralyn Buehner, you really should. Especially now. 😉 (I think the authors went to Utah State.)

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  10. I feel so bad about the whole Dante Club fiasco! I "recommended" that book before I had read it because I was hoping that I would be able to finally read it. But I still couldn't get past page 30. I love the idea of the book, just not the execution of it.

    Now for a picture book recommendation…I promise it won't have any murders in it!

    My 3 year old Hallie loves What Makes a Rainbow by Betty Ann Schwartz. It pretty much is read every night, and we've been reading it since she was a baby. I got it as a baby shower gift. If you haven't already picked this one up, then it is a must!

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  15. I love Bog Baby also but since that is already recommended I will choose two other wonderful books: Bella and Bean by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and A Tree Named Steve by Allen Zweibel.

    How very brave of you to actually finish The Dante Club!

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  17. How Rocket Learned to Read, by Tad Hills. I gave this to my friends' daughter for Christmas last year, and it was really cute.

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  20. because you know this is impossible for me to limit to one:
    1 – I love you stinky face and Good Night Princess Pruney Toes by Lisa McCourt
    2 – Dinosaur vs. The Potty and Dinosaur vs. Bedtime by Bob Shea

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