Mommy Read It Again: More Toddler Favorites

A few more library books my daughter loves. We checked out six books last week and these two have been the ones we’ve read over and over and over again:

Babyberry Pie by Heather Vogel Frederick (Author), Amy Schwartz (Illustrator)

I didn’t realize how much she would love this book but the toddler actually quotes from this one very frequently. “Baby Bewwy rub a dub! Baby Bewwy rub a dub!” Her favorite part is when the baby escapes from his parents and streaks naked across the house (“Look at baby’s bobbon [bottom]!”)

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen (Author), Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)

This book is apparently a classic, but to be honest, I hadn’t read it before. It is a lot of fun to read with repetitive text and lots of fun onomatapoeiac phrases. Everyone loves to read this one to her: Mommy, Daddy, and even the grandparents. She has pretty much memorized this one. I might have to buy a copy!

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Happy Four Year Blogiversary, Monkey Poop!

No, this isn't a picture of me and my daughter.

Yay! It’s been 4 fun years of Monkey Poop and incredibly eloquent blog posts by yours truly. I had fun compiling my top ten list last year, so I thought I’d do that again!

Here’s a list of Monkey Poop’s Top Ten Most Popular Posts of 2011:

10) Book Review: Love that Dog by Sharon Creech

9) Book Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

8) Book Review: Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

7) The BosKidLit Author Events Master List of Links (which it looks like I haven’t updated in a bit but is mostly accurate)

6) Dan Humphrey’s Top Ten Book List (Although, oops, the website linked in the blogpost doesn’t seem to work anymore and I can’t find this list anywhere else.)

5) Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

4) Ambiguous Endings: Brilliant or Lazy?

3) Book review: The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew #21)

2) Book Review: Feed by M.T. Anderson

And the # 1 blogpost for year 4 of Monkey Poop was the same as last year (this blog post still won by a landslide):

1) 10 Reasons Why Books are Better than TV

(image from Flickr, by Patries71)

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Mommy Read It Again: More Great Picture Books

Every one or two weeks my daughter and I walk to the library and come home with a pile of books to read at bedtime (or anytime, really). Here are a few of her favorites from the last few weeks:

Lots of Dots by Craig Frazier

A fun and colorful book filled with…dots. My daughter loves polka dots (or “cocoa dots” as she calls them) and this book fuels that obsession.

The Little Little Girl with the Big Big Voice by Kristen Balouch

This book was set up on the shelf by the librarians and I picked it up on an impulse just because the title seemed very apropos (my daughter was running around crazily and being way too loud for the library at the time). But after one read through my daughter was hooked (“Read big big again, Mommy! Big big!”) I think this book is just plain gorgeous and wish I could cut out the pictures and hang them up on my wall–don’t worry, I’d never do that to a library book! I also like that the little girl depicted has brown skin, but that fact isn’t really important to the story.

Duck Goes Potty by Michael Dahl; illustrated by Oriol Vidal

I have no idea why my daughter loves this book. I mean yes, the illustrations are cute and colorful, but she refuses to use the potty and hates many of our other potty books. We’ve checked this book out TWICE now. Maybe because it shows the duck missing the toilet and peeing on the floor? I don’t know. Or maybe it’s just because the main character is a duck (and as I’ve mentioned many times, my daughter loves ducks)?

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