Dog's colorful day

Dog's clorful day   by Emma Dodd

I always like the book from Emma Dodd, the story is simple but the meaning includes a lot.
For younger reader, they can eay to pick the color from this book and Dodd let the story goes smoothly and cheerly. I love the little dog, she is pure and innocent. Whoever left the different color on it. It will never angry at it.  "You need a bath, Dog!" Yes, I think so.

Clark the shark dares to share

Clark the shark dares to share    Bruce Hale/Guy Francis

How to learn "sharing"? It's a little bit hard for Clark the shark after he going through
many situations unexpectec.  He always said " But I was sharing too!" , just because the
meaning of "sharing" is not quite clear from everyone's explantion. Does Clark learn
the real sharing to his classmates and family? I guess so!

共讀書單

2014/09/15-2014/11/03 動態協會英語繪本讀書會共讀書單

Old MacDonald had a wedding

Old MacDonald had a wedding  by Ron Berman and illustrated by Brian Gerrity


Old MacDonald had a farm....朗朗上口的歌曲,這一本wedding的書也會讓你愛不釋手,
Little Bo Peep lost her sheep but found her man (當然就是 MacDonald),當兩人牽起了愛的
小手,答案當然是....."E-I-E-I-Oh, yes, yes!"

既然要辦婚禮,當然就要邀請親朋好友,寄出invitation....好日子就定在5/24,
鵝媽媽,稻草人都來參加了...當然少不了也要牧師證婚一下吧 !Cowboy,cow也要來
參加婚禮...then小雞,then小鴨,then小綿羊.....好棒的婚禮...一起跳舞吧!!!

Calvin can't fly

Calvin can't fly   by Jennifer Berne and illustrated by Keith Bendie

Calvin was born under the eaves of an old barn with his brothers, sisters and thousands of
cousins. Calvin is total different with the others, he likes reading! He stays at the library all
the time but miss the class of flying. The day they need to moving south, his cousins help
to tide him with string, finally they can go together.  The way they went is not quietly, the hurricane
attack everywhere. Calvin warned his family to hide in the cave and keep each one safe.

He is the hero, there was a big party to celebrate for him, finally he learn how to fly~

How cute Calvin the starling is. You will love it.

Snowmen at Christmas

Snowmen at Christmas   by Caralyn Buehner  pictures by Mark Buehner

Do you know what does the snowmen do at night when you sleep? They are preparing
to celebrate! Including all family and their dogs, they are slipping away to gather in the town
square and have fun.

The snowman Santa Claus will bring his bagful of goodies to the snowmen. This is a very adorable
story with great warmth and humor.

我喜歡聖誕雪人的部分,尤其是當雪人遞上一杯熱可可給他,慰勞他的辛苦時,我覺得很溫馨
又感人,看著雪人爸爸媽媽揹著小雪人,帶著小雪狗一起回到原來的地方等待Christmas的到來,
文中提到,喜樂充滿在心中,且眼神閃耀著光芒..... WOW...真棒!!

Millie's marvellous hat

Millie's Marvellous Hat  by Satoshi Kitamura

這是一本想像力的書,我超愛,愛他的原因很多,其中一部分是因為那位店員...
我愛他的彬彬有禮,愛他的想像力,愛他的包容與愛心....愛他那麼有童趣...

欣賞Satoshi Kitamura的書,第一本是What's inside?Alphabet book, 第二本是Stone Age Boy,

這本 Millie's Marvellous Hat 真的非常讓我激賞...我在班上的分享,孩子們的反應非常好,我們談了有關於英國人戴帽子的禮貌,也談了為什麼店員那麼親切的接待沒有錢的Millie,而Millie~這個小女孩(很像小一),自然不做作,因為太喜歡帽子而想要擁有帽子,作者安排了外表看起來冷酷的店員,但事實上,他卻是無比的熱情,隨著小女孩的願望,從無到有,一起運用想像力讓Millie滿足的帶著他的帽子離開...一路上的風景更是精采,許多想像的帽子油然而生,我讓小朋友來找找各式各樣不同的帽子,也讓他們自行想像自己要戴的帽子...歡笑多多~

Five Creatures

Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins  pictures by Tomek Bogacki  (contents from book)

Five creatures live in our house.
Three humans, and two cats.

Three short, and two tall.
Four grownups, and on child.(That's me!)

Three with orange hair, and two with gray.
Tow with long hair, and three with short.

So begin the lighthearted comparisons of the members of a happy household,
in which each member is distinct but also has something in common with each of the
of the others.

~以上摘自本書介紹

初級的書,很適合小朋友認識家人的相同與不同處,本書加入兩隻貓寵物家人,
完全符合現代人只有一個小孩家庭,成年的貓與父母相同地位,卻又與小孩一樣
調皮....Emily Jenkins輕鬆的在小孩認知這一塊,來去自如~厲害~

The other side o town

The other side of town by Jon Agee  (picture by website)

This is a special book! Everything seems reasonable but kind of weird. You have a
regular life everyday and you never doubt it until you meet the guy who comes from
the other side of town.

我很喜歡跟自己的小孩講外星話,甚麼是外星話呢?就是你們兩個可以溝通的另一種語言...

剛巧我上過一堂楊茂秀教授的兒童哲學課,楊教授在課堂上要我們用外星話來跟別人聊天!天呀,大家你看看我,我看看你,幾乎都傻在當場,可是我沒有....我立刻用一種獨特的語言,脫口而出,楊教授立刻跟我對話....那一刻,真有趣,我們幾乎聊了2分鐘....只有2分鐘,可是我們兩個很高興,他後來問我為什麼會外星話?我說,因為常跟孩子講外星話呀...教授很開心...要我們平日可以多多練習外星話!!

為什麼提到這個,因為這本書裡,有許多類似的情節,雖然都是在平日熟悉的場景發生,這些理所當然發生在城鎮的另一端可就不一樣了...你要能夠解碼所有與眾不同的"外星話",你才能夠繼續往前走,身為一個計程車司機,怎麼可能會被難倒呢???Jon Agee提出挑戰...當你像一個怪獸般的逃離你不熟悉的地方,回到家後又發現惡夢的延伸....你會如何呢?

奇特的封面~ 沒有書名???

Pezzettino

Pezzettino   by Leo Lionni

Again, I like to introduce this book "Pezzettino" by Leo Lionni.

Pezzettino lives in a world in which everyone is big and does daring and
wonderful things. But he is small, just a "little piece," which is the meaning
of pezzettino in Italian. I must be a piece of somebody else. I must belong to
someone else, he thinks, and one day he decides to find out.

How Pezzettino learns that he belongs to no one but himself is the joyous and
satisfying conclusion to this beautiful picture book. Using collage and small,
colorful squares, Leo Lionni has created a delightfully graphic fable that
captures all the longing of a small child in a world of big people.

如果你讀過失落的一角及圓滿大結局,大師的這本書你一定能夠心領神會,
每個人都有懷疑自己的時候,當你想要尋找自己的歸屬,驀然回首時,才發現自己
就是那最重要的部分,一但我們能夠將自己settle down,就能擁有最正面的
力量,也才能夠明白自己的價值~(自己的感想啦)

Mr Big

Mr Big   by Ed Vere

"Let me tell you a story about a friend of mine, he goes by the name of BIG...
Mr Big.  Now Mr Big had a small problem. Compared to everyone else, he was extremely...
BIG."

外表魁武,人見人怕...Mr Big is always alone everywhere, cafe shop, swimming pool.....
lonesome is inside his heart, no one wants to know the "real" Mr Big. All they know is
just the size.

Until the music changes everything and people start to listen his music by piano, that is so
warm, beautiful and touchable sound.  "Who is the player?"

An invitation sent to Mr Big, there is a band wants him to participate the group, will Mr Big
go to join them or not?

THe boy who lost his bellybutton

THe boy who lost his bellybutton  by Jeanne Willis  Tony Ross

超強組合,再一次令人捧腹大笑的作品,誰會掉了肚臍眼呢?
到哪兒去找呢?當然是去最多動物聚集的叢林裡囉....
途中碰到了長頸鹿,大猩猩,森林之王獅子.....他想要幫忙,
便要求所有動物中有肚臍眼的舉手....到底肚臍眼落在誰
那裏呢??

Little Brown Bushrat

Little Brown Bushrat by Georgie Ripper


A lot of animals they group together and talk loudly. They were busy discussing what it
was that each of them did best.

"I am by far the most beautiful" said lyrebird
"I can jump higher that anyone else" said kangaroo
"I can hang upside down by my tail" said the possum
"I can run the fastest" who is that?  Yes, -> emu

Bushrat was amazed. He couldn't run very fast, or jump very well, despite what his
mother said, he didn't think he was very beautiful.  He was also pretty sure that if
he tried to hang upside down by this tail, something very nasty would happen.

The rainbow lorikeet was the most colourful.
The duck-billed platypus was the best swimmer.
The echidna had the best nose for miles around.
Even the lazy koala could sleep for longer than anyone else.

What is the bushrat good at??? He asked himself. Nothing!!!  Is it real? Suddenly,
the wompoo fruit dove come bursting into the clearing. "Fire!" she squawked...
Everyone was silent......and PANIC!...How the bushrat save everyone with his wisedom?

You will never want to miss the part.....

What game shall we play?

 

What game shall we play?    by Pat Hutchins

      

 "Hide and Seek" that is always the most interesting game for all toddlers and
young kids, There are many animals hid in Hatchins' picture book. They enjoy
to find the animals again and again based on the clues author left.

I'm also the fan of Hutchins, the famous book people known should be the
book "Rosie's Walk". Look the eyes of her animals and you can find they
all look back you. Amazing.

Nicolas, where have you been?

Nicolas, where have you been?      by Leo Lionni 

 (words from the book)
(pictures from website)

While hunting for sweet red berries, Nicolas Mouse is snatched
up and carried away by a big ugly bird. But that is only the beginning
of Nicolas's remarkable adventure.
Days later, when he returns home and begins telling his mice friends
what happened to him, they interrupt his story, shouting, "Down with
the birds! War on the birds!" Nicolas shouts back, " Let me finish!"
And when he does, they all agree with Uncle Raymond Mouse that
"one" bad bird doesn't make flock."

Four-time Caldecott Honor Book author-artist Leo Lionni has created
 a fable that children will want to hear again and again, and one with
 special meaning today. As the Horn Book Magazine wrote, "Nicolas,
Where Have You Been? is a fine, cheerful example of an ethical,
philosophical idea cast as a dightful  picture book.

 

 

 I love Leo Lionni, he is amazing and he just know how kid's thought and 
can give all imagainations into the charactors of the books preciselly.