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 [...]

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 [...]