Comments on: Quiet and Noisy http://thismommygig.org/2008/05/31/quiet-and-noisy/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:52:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Diane Cordell http://thismommygig.org/2008/05/31/quiet-and-noisy/#comment-327 Diane Cordell Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:18:06 +0000 http://thismommygig.org/?p=147#comment-327 Kate, Mother/child reading time calms down both parties at the end of a busy day. Carle's books are classics. "Ain't Gonna Paint..." has pictures by one of my favorite illustrators, David Catrow. I feature him in some of my elementary library classes. Other books he's illustrated include "Rotten Teeth" (with Laura Simms), "Our Tree Named Steve" (by Alan Zweibel), and "I Wanna Iguana" (by Karen Kaufman Orloff). So many books...so little time! diane Diane Cordells last blog post..<a href="http://dmcordell.blogspot.com/2008/05/edufreespirit.html" rel="nofollow">EduFreeSpirit</a> Kate,
Mother/child reading time calms down both parties at the end of a busy day.
Carle’s books are classics. “Ain’t Gonna Paint…” has pictures by one of my favorite illustrators, David Catrow. I feature him in some of my elementary library classes. Other books he’s illustrated include “Rotten Teeth” (with Laura Simms), “Our Tree Named Steve” (by Alan Zweibel), and “I Wanna Iguana” (by Karen Kaufman Orloff).
So many books…so little time!
diane

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]]> By: Kate http://thismommygig.org/2008/05/31/quiet-and-noisy/#comment-325 Kate Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:35:21 +0000 http://thismommygig.org/?p=147#comment-325 Diane - I couldn't agree more :-) Reading with my kids has been one of the greatest parts of motherhood and although my daughter can sit still for MANY more books than my son can, I just love when he toddles over to me with his favorite book in his hand. Thanks so much for these suggestions - I haven't read either of them, which is amazing! I thought my Eric Carle collection was complete, but I guess not :-) I'll definitely be looking for these to add to our summer reading list! Diane - I couldn’t agree more :-) Reading with my kids has been one of the greatest parts of motherhood and although my daughter can sit still for MANY more books than my son can, I just love when he toddles over to me with his favorite book in his hand. Thanks so much for these suggestions - I haven’t read either of them, which is amazing! I thought my Eric Carle collection was complete, but I guess not :-) I’ll definitely be looking for these to add to our summer reading list!

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