Bed knobs and Broomsticks

My blog is 3 years old this month!  I did a lot more blog posts in the first year of blogging and I hope I can start to blog a little more often than I have this year so far!  Almost all of my blog posts have been about books that I own, but this one is not.  I found this Little Golden Boom of Bedknobs and Broomsticks at a children's indoor play centre a few months ago.  It was in a basket in their reading area, and hopefully I did not weird anyone out as I sat there taking pictures of the book!  I love the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks and watched it with my oldest daughter for the first time a few months back.  Anyone else like Disney movies that are a little more obscure?

The Golden Egg Book

Happy belated Easter!  Look at this beautiful Big Little Golden Book - The Golden Egg Book, by Margaret Wise Brown!  Leonard Weisgard's illustrations are amazing !  Easter didn't feel very Easter-y for us since it was snowing as we ate our dinner!  But we had a great time throughout the weekend with family and friends.  My girls were so excited to hunt for their eggs.  My almost 4 year old thinks she has a handle on the situation- "Chickens poop Easter eggs."

ABC is for Christmas

How is everyone's Christmas holidays going?  I just love the gorgeous illustrations in this Little Golden Book, ABC is for Christmas, written by Jane Werner Watson and illustrated  by Sally Augustiny.  

We had a nice Christmas Day in spite of my husband and 2 older daughters being quite sick with a bad cough and fever.  Now my husband is getting a bit better but now the baby has it.  Not good. 

We had a green Christmas this year, it's been a few years since that happened, and my 8 year old is disappointed that it doesn't look very Christmas-y outside.  At least we have electricity!  Last year's ice storm threw everyone in our area for a loop last year in the week leading up to Christmas.  At my house we were ok as we were only out of power for 13 hours.  But many people we know had it a lot worse!  

In the week coming up I am looking forward to more get-togethers with family and friends.  My husband has the week off work so I will have help with the kids all week, yay!  Thank goodness as it would have been hard to manage all these sick kids without his help!  See you in the New Year, everyone!

Eloise Wilkin - We Help Daddy and We Like Kindergarten

More of Eloise Wilkin's wonderful work for you today - We Help Daddy - I have a tiny as well as regular size version, and We Like Kindergarten.  I feel like We Help Daddy is a good reminder to me to try to let the kids 'help' when we can, even if it slows us down.  My 8 year old has become a good helper with her younger 2 sisters.  She does not like doing chores but she does like to do special jobs like helping to bake a cake.  We Like Kindergarten brought back a few special memories of my own kindergarten class - I remember the classroom had an upstairs loft - how cool is that!  I vaguely remember being Mary in the Christmas play and being cheerily competitive with a little boy in the class over who was the best reader - we were the only 2 in the class who could read already.  I even have a sweet picture of me and a few friends at a sleepover and I am reading a bedtime story to everyone while we are cozied up in our pajamas.

Eloise Wilkin - Baby Listens and Mother Goose

More gorgeous illustrations from Eloise Wilkin for you today- Baby Listens, and Mother Goose.  My own baby is doing well - she is 9 months old now.  She is full of smiles and wiggles. Teething like crazy but nothing has come through yet. She really seems to like people and new faces. And my beautiful big girls are 7 and 3.  We're having a nice summer together - it goes by so fast as always. These days my oldest daughter is into Lego, Minecraft, reading, drawing, and learning about horses.  My middle daughter is into Lightning McQueen/Cars, the Fresh Beat Band, swimming lessons, and Play-Doh.

The Busy Busy World of Richard Scarry

I found The Busy Busy World of Richard Scarry at the library recently - what a cool book!  

The pictures I've included here are of books of Scarry's that I had not seen before.  As many of you know, Richard Scarry's work is very extensive!  I really wish I could buy some vintage Busytown toys - they have a lot of cute stuff on Etsy and Ebay - but it is always so expensive when you include the shipping costs.  Isn't it so fun to see the covers of Richard Scarry's books in other languages?

Richard Scarry- I am a Bunny and The Bunny Book

Happy Easter!  2 adorable bunny books illustrated by Richard Scarry here today.  I love the Golden Sturdy book I Am a Bunny- the pictures are so vibrant and fun.  And I love the story of The Bunny Book - so sweet.