Net Galley Challenge
Friday, January 30, 2015
The Predator Paradox
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
And Away we go
Compared to the sly fox in The Fox and the Stork, its a merry fox in 'And Away we go' that lets all animals join the hot air balloon ride and enjoy friends company.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
I know its Autumn
'I know its Autumn' is a human version of Little ferns first winter, where the kid recounts all things different in autumn - acorn art, picking apples, raking leaves.
How Do Dinosaurs Love their Dogs?
I am just wondering how would 'How Do Dinosaurs Love their dogs' have been, had the author interspersed the questions of how Dinos treat their dogs with how they do instead of bunching all the bad behaviour in one section and all the good in another. Wouldnt the 'They dont this, they do this' work better on the same spread?
With each page and a dinosaur in it, my toddler kept asking for the name of dinosaurs. Noticing the suffix 'saurus' of every name, she goes 'What does Saurus mean?' We were going to look up in the iphone and then recognised this to be a good time for cracking the dictionary open. She wants to stop at every illustration and find out what it is.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
What is guessing?
My daughter and her friend came up with guessing game of putting something from the food basket or legos in a cube made of foam alphabets. Then they ask us to guess whats in there but as soon they tell off whats in there.
I told my daughter that needs to keep it a secret or else we wont be able to guess as we already know it.
she says "I am guessing about it"
I - "Guessing is telling without knowing"
She - "Whats that mean?"
She - "What is guessing"
I - You have to give us clues.
Until then she kept putting a tennis ball and give it off that its a ball.
She went into her play room and put something in the box. When asked for clues
She - Lunch
I - Can we eat it?
She - not now. later (We just had breakfast)?
I - Is it a fruit or a vegetable? Bread?
She - Pasta and Rice
Looks like she got the hang of providing clues and let others guess.
I told my daughter that needs to keep it a secret or else we wont be able to guess as we already know it.
she says "I am guessing about it"
I - "Guessing is telling without knowing"
She - "Whats that mean?"
She - "What is guessing"
I - You have to give us clues.
Until then she kept putting a tennis ball and give it off that its a ball.
She went into her play room and put something in the box. When asked for clues
She - Lunch
I - Can we eat it?
She - not now. later (We just had breakfast)?
I - Is it a fruit or a vegetable? Bread?
She - Pasta and Rice
Looks like she got the hang of providing clues and let others guess.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
How Much is the Doggie in the Window
How Much is the Doggie in the Window story by Iza Trapani
My daughter has read this story with us for about four times now. After coming to the page, where the doggie is no longer in the window, she pointed out that there is no doggie. The shopkeeper gives the boy a lollipop to assuage him. Looking at that she says, he does not want lollipop. Then I asked, what does he want,
She goes Doggie!
When you scan the page where the kid is lying on a bed, you find the baseball at the bottom of the table, but there's a baseball next to it, that is the same colour as the table and becomes invisble.
The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
The Seed and the Giant Saguaro is a cumulative tale like This is the House that Jack Built. The brown tones reflect the desert landscape very well.
Looking at the bird feet tracks, our young reader called them footprints.
Whose?
birdie.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Where Are You?
Where are You by Francesca Simon
Its amazing how, when a search begins among people, its not one but two stories of parallel searches. Grandpa and Grandson duo mistake others for their lost and are finally united in the SuperMarket, where it all began.
On second rereading, we noticed that the page with Harry's shadow also has Grandpa's shadow, towards the back.
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