Any good suggestions? I'll take toddler through early reader. I think my mom is making him a bookcase.
Early board books Emmett liked: Goodnight Gorilla, Jamberries, Is Your Mama A Llama?, the Ruth Wise Brown ouevre. He also loved Curious George books quite a lot, though they seem to be in ill repute now. I don't know how you can turn down a book that advocates monkeys who get high on ether.
Rice's numbers do drop off precipitiously. Also, he suffers (as most 80s hitters do) from the advent of the steroid era, which makes 30 Home Run seasons look nugatory. There was a time when only the four or five strongest guys in baseball could hit an opposite field home run. Nowadays any flyweight utility player can do it. Anyway, you need to compare Rice's slugging against his peers to really get how dominant he was.
Mickey in the Night Kitchen!
Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cakes and nothing's the matter!
Do children still read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull and The Little Engine That Could?
Poor Ferdinand. I always felt sorry for him.
Emmett loved Ferdinand and In The Night Kitchen.
In San Francisco, you can go to the Metreon and the Where the Wild Things Are attraction and eat at the Night Kitchen. They even have a little bread train, but it doesn't go anymore.
In the Night Kitchen gave me the creeps.
Tiki Tiki Tembo! Yay!
Allyson, this book, or really anything by Kevin Henkes.
Good Night, Mister Night.
Anything by Nancy Willard. When I was a kid I loved
Simple Pictures Are Best
more than anything, but now I'm more of a Visit To William Blake's Inn gal. (The inn is real. It is five feet tall and sits in a corner of her dining room.)
And I know Kat will join me in the Peter Sis love, though his books are so large and beautiful and shiny (and sometimes delicate, with cutouts and sliding panels and such) that they're strictly early reader rather than toddler. But
so beautiful.
Rats. Stoopid work. Gone now.
Allyson, I know a lot of kids who like Rosemary Wells stuff:
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hey, I didn't say how old the "kids" were.
