Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Filed under: children's books

A Family Read-Along

While at work today, I received a care package to squeeze into an already stuffed care package (child's black with metallic silver star pattern backpack)(see photo in prior post).  It contained a doll my grandmother knitted, clothes, toys, and a very special book.  For Christmas I had given my parents a recordable copy of Guess How Much I Love You.  The plan was for them to record it.  We would bring it to Africa so that by the time she arrives in the States, she knows their voices a bit.  Alas, all of our delays.  My parents, my sister, and my little nephews worked together to record the story.  It is so beautiful.  It's the one thing (well, maybe in addition to the backpack with silver stars) that I have sent that I would love to be able to bring home.  You hear love as they read the story. 

Grandma's knitted doll didn't make the cut.  She's here with me.  Waiting.

Two beautiful stories

These books show us, little and big people alike, how to live. 

I have used The Three Questions as a 'first day of school' book in my classroom for years.  It is a story of a boy seeking to find the best way to live.  It is gentle, sweet, and pointed. 

I Will Make Miracles is filled with beautiful paintings as a child shares with us all the ways he will make the world better.  But at the end, he acknowledges that he must first learn to read and to write.  In my classroom, we write our own pages to this book.  My middle school students make pages filled with poetry and sentimentality.  Good books inspire.

 

 

 

Books that are important to me

Saving and raising money for my adoption has been a full time job.  A job in which my performance rating would be horribly low.  Amazon let's you post products on a page, if people purchase them through your page, you get a small percentage.  The money will be used for my adoption.  Once the adoption is paid for, the money will go to http://www.thefatherlessfoundation.org.  Here I go...

My favorite baby book.  Beautiful sentiment, a cadence babies love.

Close seconds:

These are recordable books.  Easy to use.  I recorded myself reading Goodnight Moon and sent a copy to my daughter in Africa so she could get used to my voice.  Guess How Much I Love You will be read by Grammie and Grandpa.

Adult books that tell parts of Africa's story: