Buy it: My Mommy Hung the Moon
My Mommy Hung the Moon (By Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell) – A sweet story about all the amazing things mothers can do from the point of view of children. Mothers bake cookies, drive car pools, dance and steal bases but according to their children, they also light up the sun, zap out the thunder, feather the birds, blast off rocketships and sparkle the stars. A wonderful book about the love between mothers and their children and how children believe their moms can do everything.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
Buy it: Baby Bear Discovers the World
Baby Bear Discovers the World (By Marion Dane Bauer) – A baby bear kisses his mother good-bye and sets off on an adventure to discover the world around him. This book contains absolutely amazing photographs of a real baby bear walking through the forest and encountering other animals. Each animals asks the baby bear where his mother is, pointing out that he’s too small to be out on his own. But the baby bear continues on his adventure, finding food, splashing in rivers and crossing a meadow. It’s not until baby bear encounters some bees, a skunk and a noisy farm that he decides he’s ready to find his mother. Baby bear tells his mother everything he discovered about the world and that next time he wants her to come along.
The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!
