"'If you go flying on a flying trapeze', said his mother, 'I will be a tightrope walker, and I will cross the air to you.'" Little T works on her balance while pretending to be a tight rope walker and a trapeze artist. Fun, fun, fun! The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown is about a little bunny who wanted to run away, and imagined himself to be different things … [Read more...]

Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field is a beautiful prayer asking God to bless all the familiar people and things in a child’s life; it is wonderfully illustrated. Being a prayer, nothing “happens” in the book. Little T did not appreciate it at first and kept asking for another book to read. Fortunately, Before Five in a Row (BFIAR) has engaging ideas that I again tweaked to make … [Read more...]

  Children have loved Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina since its publication in 1938. Little T from the 21st century loves this story of a cap peddler and several monkeys who got into a row over the peddler’s wares. Let’s dig in on some of the exciting things we learned from this wonderful book that I also greatly enjoyed!   MONKEYS We started this book about monkeys … [Read more...]