Ack! I have so many books I want to post about this week … but I’ve had some work to tend to, and some reading to finish, and then there is the matter of a teeny, tiny birthday BASH happening at our house on Saturday. I’ve resorted to a list. Forgive me!
THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN TWO TOWERS
Written and Illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein
Roaring Brook Press, 2003
Category: Picture book
We’ve read this favorite dozens of times, and still one or another of the kids frequently pull it off the shelf and ask me to read it. This is the first year my boys were tuned into the anniversary of 9/11/2001; tonight’s reading was steeped with new layers of meaning for them.
PUMPKINHEAD
By Eric A. Kimmel
Illustrated by Steve Haskamp
Winslow, 2001
Category: Picture Book
I cannot get this odd little book out of my (pumpkin) head. It has been dubbed “silliness”, and my daughter certainly agreed, but I read much more in the pages of this picture book. Satire. And lots of it.
THE THREE SNOW BEARS
Written and Illustrated by Jan Brett
Putnam, 2007
Category: Picture Book
We love getting lost in Jan Brett’s books. Who cares if the story is one we’ve heard many times before? The over-the-top fabulous illustrations are an entirely new adventure.
CHRONOBIOLOGY: BIOLOGICAL TIMEKEEPING
Edited by Jay C. Dunlap, Jennifer J. Loros and Patricia J. DeCoursey
Sinauer Associates, 2004
Category: Text Book
I kid you not. Research … you gotta love it. Turns out I once made apple cider at the home of two of these editors; gotta love life’s interesting curlicues too.