The First Noel

 

 

I love the cool illustrations in this Golden Book illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.  They were a husband and wife team that illustrated around 40 books together.  The First Noel was published in 1959.     I'm mooooostly ready for Christmas, how about you?  We have SO much snow compared to last year.  I'm looking forward to the Christmas Eve service at our church.  They always have cool crafts and yummy snacks out for the kids, and I always love the music.  During the holidays I'm hoping to take my older 2 girls to a couple movies and to do lots of visiting with family and friends.  Happy holidays everyone!

The Golden Book Illustrated Dictionary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A while back I picked up these Golden Book Illustrated Dictionaries from a used book sale.  The covers are illustrated by Harry McNaught and various artists did the inside work. McNaught also illustrated a number of Sesame Street books and Wizard of Oz books in the Little Golden style.

When I was a kid I read a LOT.  I don't think I ever actually read the whole dictionary but I did read through a set of children's encyclopedias that we had at one point.  Back then our school library and city library did not have a ton of selection- nowadays there is just so much out there for kids and young adults to read.  My 7-year-old has the wonderful problem of having too many books that she wants to get through.  We buy a lot of books for her, and she visits the school library every week as well as the city library once in a while, although not as often as we did when she was not in school full-time yet. She's really hooked on the Geronimo Stilton series lately.  One of these days I should count up all the children's books we have in our house.

Walt Disney's Storybook Friends

 

 

 

 

Just a quick blog post today while the baby's sleeping!  I can't believe it's only a few weeks to Christmas...  I was talking with my friends Robyn and Whitney over at Pen Pals and Picture Books about how we love Christmas because it's a time to buy our kids all those children's books that we are secretly wanting for ourselves! ;)  My kids always get a lot of books for Christmas and birthdays and for other occasions too - the Tooth Fairy has been known to bring books, etc.  Now that my third daughter has just been born (1 month old tomorrow) I now have even more excuses to buy books!  Yay!!  :)

My Great Big Tibor Gergely Post

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I don't usually put quite soooo many pictures in one blog post but I had to since we are talking about Tibor Gergely's Great Big Book of Bedtime Stories.  I felt like I had found a treasure when I came across this one at a book sale!  So about the illustrator.  Did you know it's pronounced Gare-gay (not like Gurgly, like I've been saying it in my head?!LOL.)  He was born in Hungary.  He illustrated for a lot of different authors.  The pictures I've included in this post are from these stories:  Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton, Tootle by Gertrude Crampton, Travel by Kathleen N. Daly, ("one day, perhaps man will be able to go to the moon...") Animal Gym by Beth Greiner Hoffman,  A Year in the City by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Seven Little Postmen by Margaret Wise Brown, Little Yip-Yip and His Bark by Kathryn and Byron Jackson, Lion Cub's Busy Day by Barbara Shook Hazen, Daddies by Janet Frank, The Little Red Caboose by Marian Potter, Animal Orchestra by Ilo Orleans, Gergely's Golden Circus by Peter Archer, The Happy Little Whale by Kenneth Norris, and The Golden Year by Peggy Parish.  And there are still many more stories in this great collection!  It's hard to pick a favourite. We are visiting my parents right now and brought this book along so my older daughter is enjoying reading these stories with everybody while we are here at the lake. Some of these stories I also own in Little Golden Book form and will probably blog about in more detail in the future.  

More Richard Scarry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Some more Richard Scarry books here - I had never heard of Tinker and Tanker until recently, how about you?  There are a few books about them. I would love to have a 'Busytown' themed birthday party for one of my girls one day.  Forgot to mention in the last Richard Scarry post that included in our Scarry swag is the Busytown Eye Found It board game and also the Busy, Busy Airport game.  So cute. 

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