I was so excited to find the book-and-record version of It's a Small World, although without the record, not that it matters since I don't have a record player anyway! I'm pretty sure I remember having this as a kid. I would love to take my kids to see the ride at Disney one day. The amazing Mary Blair designed the look of the Small World ride. Sorry for the sideways pictures at the bottom - I'm using BlogPad Pro for IPad and I can't for the life of me figure out how to rotate them.
Happy Blog-i-versary to me! This month makes 2 years of blogging! I love writing this blog and sharing fun things with my readers!
Disney's version of Robin Hood is one of my favourite childhood movies. So when I saw this book-on-tape at a book sale a few weeks ago I snapped it up. (Don't get in my way when I'm at a used book sale, man. I'm on a mission! Haha!) I saw that Robin Hood is on Netflix now so I want to watch it soon with my daughters. It's such a cute movie and the songs are catchy. Recently my 7 year old and I were talking about something or other and it came up that she didn't know what a cassette tape is. She thought it was a VHS tape (probably should be impressed she even knows what that is!). But then when I showed her a cassette tape later she did remember seeing one before. Wow, I guess they are archaic now! I remember as a kid I would listen to books on tape on my headphones as I was lying in bed before going to sleep. Or when I got a bit older I would listen to songs that were taped off the radio. Remember trying to quickly tape a song off the radio when it came on? You would sit there and listen until it came on just so you could hear your favourite?
Two beautifully illustrated books for you today- The Hat Book, illustrated by Leonard Shortall, and The Story of Rapunzel - a Disneyland Record and Book. I really wish I had a working record player to be able to play some of the old records I have. We looked into buying one at one point but decided not to spend the money on it.
We've been enjoying a beautiful fall here so far. It's going to get busy with our Canadian Thanksgiving coming up, my daughter's 7th birthday, Halloween, and our new baby due in about 5 weeks...!
Here are 2 Mother Goose books- a Golden Shape Book and a Disneyland Record and Book. The first one is illustrated by Bonnie and Bill Rutherford - they also worked on other really cute books like The Gingerbread Man, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Lion and the Mouse, etc. Didn't you love those books on record as a kid? And do you now have to explain to your own kids what records and cassette tapes are? Do you have any cute Mother Goose books that you like to read to your kids?
So I haven't actually included the full chapter book version of The Black Stallion here, just the abridged picture book versions because I love the illustrations. I loved The Black Stallion when I was a kid and I also read all of the sequels - there are about 20 in the series. The Black Stallion was originally published in 1941. The movie came out in 1979. I own a dvd copy of it now. The basic story is that a boy, Alec, is shipwrecked and manages to survive on a desert island with a horse from his ship that has not yet been trained. After being rescued, Alec trains and races the stallion.
Two beautifully illustrated books for you today- The Hat Book, illustrated by Leonard Shortall, and The Story of Rapunzel - a Disneyland Record and Book. I really wish I had a working record player to be able to play some of the old records I have. We looked into buying one at one point but decided not to spend the money on it. 
Here are 2 Mother Goose books- a Golden Shape Book and a Disneyland Record and Book. The first one is illustrated by Bonnie and Bill Rutherford - they also worked on other really cute books like The Gingerbread Man, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Lion and the Mouse, etc. Didn't you love those books on record as a kid? And do you now have to explain to your own kids what records and cassette tapes are? Do you have any cute Mother Goose books that you like to read to your kids? 
