Aleph-Bet Books

Aleph-Bet Books is a business that sells first editions of children’s books and other illustrated books. They have put several of their book sale catalogs online which are full of antique and vintage illustrations. Not like holding the real thing in your hands, but still, I had fun salivating over all the fine, [...]

Bear Snores On

By Karma Wilson, Illustrated by Jane Chapman, 2002, 40 pages
“In a cave in the woods,In his deep, dark lair,through the long, cold wintersleeps a great brown bear.”Thus begins the story of one hibernating bear whose cave is visited by all manner of small forest creatures: mouse, hare, badger, gopher, mole, wren and raven. Each one [...]

Blueberries For Sal

By Robert McCloskey, 1948, 64 pages
“Little Sal picked three berries and dropped them in her little tin pail…kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk!”
This is another favorite classic children’s books of ours that’s been around for 60(!) years. It’s the story of a mother and her Little Sal (a girl), and a mother bear and her Little Bear wandering [...]

Websites for Favorite Book Series

If your child has a favorite book or series of books, they often want more stories than the author has written. Many publishers have created websites for these books which usually have more information about the author/illustrator, favorite characters, coloring pages that can be printed out, and interactive games. Three of my daughter’s [...]

Two by Dr. Seuss

We all know about “The Cat In The Hat”, “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”, and “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”, but here are a couple other Seuss books you may have missed that my daughter and I really enjoy. The first is “Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book” (1962), which leads us through [...]