Oh a cute cat book? Added to cart
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I’m trying to remember a book I just kind of remember the format and cadence of…
Like…
“Big A, little a, what begins with A?
DA-da DA-da DA-da DA-da A, A, A”
But with the Da-das being A words and then the same format for each letter?
Is this familiar to anyone?
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Also while I’m here, some of our favorites lately –
Quackers by Liz Wong - a story about a cat who thinks he’s a duck. Very cute, about loving both a family of origin you don’t really fit in with and a found family you do.
Tanka Tanka Skunk by Steve Webb - rhythms with animal names. Mo’s current favorite in terms of prose.
Optical Physics for Babies by Chris Ferrie - very basic of course but Mo loves the simple, clear pictures.
The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi - a bit advanced for baby aged but very cute book about not being able to do things is (often) just a matter of yet!
Aunt Annie’s alligator, a a a.
Dr Suess, specifically the board book which I think is slightly shorter than the paper version. Now I wanna see how much I can remember. We no longer have that book in our house but it will live in my brain forever.
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Thank you!
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Anyone have a good recommendation for a book about rocks? Pumpkin is 3.5 and open to board books or picture books or more advanced but with lots of pictures. She is an avid rock collector so anything about other people who collect rocks, or where rocks come from etc. just wanted to see if someone here had come across something they thought was a good read.
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Rhoda’s rock hunt! And I think “a rock can be” may have been another one.
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Oh wait! Maybe instead of Rhoda’s rock hunt im remembering “what you can do with a rock”?
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“The street beneath my feet” is rock adjacent and good.
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Summary
Big A little a what begins with A?
Aunt Annies Alligator aaa
Big B little b what begjns with B? Barbers bees bubble gum BBB
Big C little C what begins with C
Cats
Doughnuts and a Duck dog
Ear egg elephant
Fighting ??? On a fiffer feffer feff
Goats and goo goo goggles
Itchy itchy Ichabod and his ice cream too
Hungry horse Hen in hat
Jennie’s in the jelly jar
Kicking kangaroo
Lions licking lollipops
M
Nine new neckties night shirt nose
Orange owl ???
Painting some pyjamas pink
Quick queen of quincy and her quacking quackeroo
Rosie’s red rhinocerous
Sammie’s sipping soda pop
Ten tired turtles in a tuttle tuttle tree (Something like that)
Uncle ubb’s umbrella and his underwear too
Vera Vin’s Violin
?? And washing waldo woo
Something with xylophone 
A singing yellow yak with yolanda on her back
A zizzerzazzerzeus as you can plainly see
Also in the style of Sandra Boynton
A arrdvark admiring
B beaver ballooning
Cats cleaning
Dinisaur dancing
Elephant eating
Frogs frowning
Gopher grinning
Hippos hiding
Iguanas Itching
Joeys jumping
Kangaroos kissing
Lions leaping
Moose mowing
Nightingales nesting
Owls opening
Penguins painting
Quails quacking
Rhinosceraus rowing?
Snakes slithering
Tadpoles?
Uglybirds being ugly
Vicuna violining
Weasles whistling
Xylo xylophoning
Yaks yawning
Zebras zigzagging
Goodnight friends
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This is what I’d go for:
Our favourite from this publisher are the encyclopedias because we are very popular people. (It took us until our second child to know that 2yos often don’t have a full (children’s one topic) encyclopedia memorized and in fact sometimes they only want to read a handful of pages and not the whole book in one sitting.)
So ymmv for what Pumpkin likes. B2 also likes the books from this publisher but only a few pages at a time.
3.5 yo niece can sit with the animal encyclopedia for a good chunk.
We’ve never tried rocks. B1 is collecting rocks and stealing my crystals and rocks are where you find fossils so maybe I’ll get it.
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Still need to take Pumpkin to the library for rock books, maybe this week.
We bought “Gymnastica Fantastica” by a local author & illustrator Briony Stewart and its brilliant, we did a lot of copying the described motions.
https://www.target.com.au/p/gymnastica-fantastica-briony-stewart/68978006
Really fun illustrations and colour.
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I think @ginja_ninja was looking for things for vehicle obsessed kiddo? Anyway Construction Cat is a mum and she leaves the kittens with their dad to go to her construction job! Loved it. It wasnt a big deal about her being a Woman In Construction, just what happens in her day.
I have also really loved the books by Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelace, because they show a variety of people as the construction workers and there’s a ton of sounds to make as you read.
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Could I ask for a children’s book sommelier? Looking for:
- toddler friendly books to introduce concepts like numbers, colors, shapes, that kind of thing (we have lots of animal and parts of the body books)
- board books or indestructible books
- if I can dream a crazy dream: books with people of East Asian descent that aren’t about dim sum or Chinese new year (which we love but are stocked up on)
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This is a very simple board book but “Little You” has illustrations with a family that looks to be of east Asian descent and it’s the sweetest little book ever.
“Where is the green sheep” doesn’t go through all the colors one by one but it does look for a green sheep!
“Little Blue and Little Yellow” covers blue, yellow, and green.
For later: there’s a series in one of the cricket magazines (either ladybug or click) called “Yo wants to know” which are short little stories about a girl named Yo who’s of east Asian descent. I did a quick Google search and it looks like they have a stand alone book series called the same thing but it’s for older kids. (ETA it’s on Click, which is targeted for older kids than ladybug.)
As a young toddler we liked “highlights hello” magazine which has not quite indestructable, but very tear resistant pages and features a wide variety of kids in both photos and illustrations each month. We still have all the copies we got 2+ years ago and they get pulled out to re-read.
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I think there is a mini Llama Llama book about each of these. We found them at the library. I think they are called “llama llama numbers”, “llama llama shapes,” and “llama llama colors.”
One I found randomly that’s very fun is Eric Carle’s “very first book of colors.”
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Storytelling Math series by Grace Lin! They’re newer, like in the last year or so releases.
Other newer release concept books:
*Big and Little: A Book of Animal Opposites by Harriet Evans, ill. Linda Tordoff
*Flora and Friends: Colors by Molly Idle (there’s also an ABC book in the series)
*Hello Hello Colors & Hello Hello Shapes both by Brendan Wenzel
*Number Train by Jonathan Emmett, ill Ingela P. Arrhenius
As someone who bought board books for a library, I found the big publishers really only do a few new concept books per year. There genuinely are not as many out there as general family/friends/bedtime books.
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For numbers:
My First Sophie La Girafe: Let’s Get Counting!
And My first counting book (little golden books)
For east asian: we like Bee-Bim-Bap! , which might be too close to dim sum, but it is a fun book to read with a nice cadence.
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Ravioli loves these. There’s a cat in several of them as well!!
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