Eclectic reading this week
I've been reading a lot of different things this week. I ordered some new books from our book fair and those were awesome! The first one was the Caldecott award winner this year (for best picture book) by Dan Santat. It's about an island where imaginary friends live, waiting to be called. One of the little guys gets impatient and decides to go and look for his friend. It's not an easy journey, but he perseveres and becomes Beekle. It's a great little story about friendship and persistence. I'm planning to read it to my little kids this week and I can't wait. Here's the book trailer: The second one was also highly rated by a number of people and I can totally see why. It's called "How to read a story" by Kate Messner. It's a picture book that describes in many steps, how to read a story and it gives great advice. Lest you think it might be boring, let me disabuse of THAT right away. I got my new box of books j...