I don't want a posh dog!

 

 

Emma Dodd,目前住在London, England.

我曾經介紹過我最喜愛的書之一"What pet to get?"就是

自她!看看那一隻宛如皇后般的貴賓狗,Emma在書中告訴讀者她心目中最優的狗狗, 既不是跳上跳下的型,也不是天生一副不開心的樣子的狗狗,更不會是那種碰不得的狗狗,也不要跑得很快的賽狗,裝可憐的狗.........各種個性及外型的狗狗都會在這本書出場喔~最後終於找到

最perfect的狗狗囉~ (picture from website)

 

可以跟小朋友玩變裝遊戲喔~(帶各式的服裝,讓小朋友們限時變裝,拍起照片再來票選小朋友心目中的perfect one.

 

 

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The Penguin and the Pea

Again, for penguin, I found an interesting book talked about the real princess. Isn't it familar with the other story? Yes, but it happened on penguin's kingdom. The queen wanted to identify the real princess, she put the pea under twenty mattresses!! What! Twenty! Are you kidding me?
The queen said " We must be absolutely sure that this young penguin is a real princess! Only a true princess is so delicate and fragile as to feel a single pea under twenty mattresses~

No doubt, the princess past the test and married with the young prince then joined in the royal family.

Would you like to try it? Put a pea under your pillow then feel it....can you really feel about the pea? If not, don't worry, you don't have to marry to the prince. (picture by website)

Don't Be Afraid, Little Pip

Don't Be Afraid, Little Pip   by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman

Is penguin a bird or not? If yes, why it can't fly? Pip doesn't want to learn swimming but flying, his parents sang"Into the water, under the sea-that's the best place for a penguin to be. Flapping our wings and swishing on by.
Penguins can swim, so why should we fly?"

Pip didn't sing along. She looked up again at the sky. " I still just want to fly," she whispered.

Sometimes we like the differences, sometimes not. Kids have their own thinking about life to be but the real world sometimes not allow to.

Nothing scares Little Pip more than the thought of swimming in the deep dark ocean-she would rather than learn to fly just like the other birds do.

If you have such a kid like Pip, what will you do? Agree or disagree?
That will be an ineresting question. (picture by website)

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

A Sick Day for Amos McGee   by Philip c. Stead / illustrated by Erin E. Stead

Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his goodfriends: the elephant, the tortoise, the peguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl.

But on day-"Ah-choo!"-- he woke up with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests....

Philip Stead's gently humorous tale of friendship and dedication is illustrated by his wife Erin Stead's elegant drawings, embellished with subtle hints of color. (winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal) ~ picked up from the book.

很棒又溫馨的故事,本來Amos照顧的動物後來因為有一天一直等不到Amos,大家無法開始正常一天的生活,但是動物們決定搭公車去找Amos時,一連串溫馨又感人的情節就此打開....不看可惜喔!!

Dozy Mare

Dozy Mare  by Jeanne Willis / Tony Ross

You can stand still without any move like the dozy mare. But she isn't really dozy, she just like the freedom. Sometimes we asked our kids to do something and they just stay in their rooms and do nothing! Perhaps what they really need is freedom too?

Bigh Smelly Bear

Britta Teckentrup has  written so many interesting books for children and I introduced one copy before "Grumpy Cat", did you read it?

"Big Smelly Bear", there was a big bear who never washed even took any bath.  Big Smelly Bear was followed by a big smelly stink wherever he went. Flies buzzed all around him. Big Smelly Bear wanted to have a friend but who could stand the smelly bear?
Here is the surprise for a kind bear showing up, she can help the Big Smelly Bear to stop his itehes but she asked the Smelly bear to take a bath!!! "What?" "A bath!" Of coures, our Big bear will rather itch to die! They are arguing for a while then who's the winner? Guess!!!

Easy and warm story for kids easy to understand the frindship and the benefits for taking bathes.

Ivy

What's a penguin to think when he turns Pink!

What's a penguin to think when he turns Pink!
( by Lynne Rickards / illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain)

打開糊貼頁,所有的小企鵝都出來跟你打招呼囉....最最顯眼的是一隻粉紅色企鵝Patrick!!沒聽錯,它就是粉紅色,說穿了,它也不是自己愛變成跟大家不一樣的,但....某日一覺醒來,小企鵝Patrick就"變身"了???但是媽咪可是處變不驚呢,還告訴Patrick說,Dr. Black will soon sort you out.
But Dr. Black 翻遍了所有醫書,只找到了受凍的企鵝該是blue, 如果是queasy嘔吐的話,你該變成green!就是沒找到為什麼Patrick會變成pink......還安慰他,你會慢慢習慣的啦....(講什麼瘋話??)我!
Patrick可是個boy!!!! And BOYS CAN'T BE PINK!!
一場安慰的戲碼隨之開演,爸爸安慰Patrick, "Famingos are pink, just like you.", but Patrick還是不死心的問:"Are some of them boys?" 這些是無法讓Patrick免除同學的嘲笑....他決定他要去非洲拜訪Flamingos....於是展開他的冒險之旅...
經過了7天7夜,強壯的Patrick終於游到了較溫暖的海域,第8天Patrick抵達了海岸邊,數以百計的Flamingos....they had long necks and spindly legs and were very very tall. "Will you join us for lunch?" "Oh, yes, thank you! he cried.  But Patrick's beak was quite the wrong shape, so he came up coughting and spluttering. Poor Patrick would have to go hungry. Then Patrick like to stand on one leg and tucked his head down. But he failed. He was hopeless!!
Patrick decided to go home since he didn't belong here. He swam and swam until the water felt cold again.

Patrick回學校後意外成為大家注目的焦點!!Why??因為他可以分享他的旅遊及經歷,而他的朋友個個都羨慕不已呢!!再也沒有人關注Pink這件事情囉~ So sweet story!

About Snowmen

Have you ever seen a snowman at night?  Through this book, Caralyn Buehner will take you to visit the snowmen at night.

Snowmen at night     Caralyn Buehner and picture by Mark Buehner

A little boy looked at his snowman and wonder if there was something different when he made yesterday?? Then maybe the snowman has his very own work at night? Maybe they start to slide off the lawn and down the street---right into the park. Maybe they gather in a circle while they wait for all the others, sipping cups of ice-cold cocoa, made by snowman mothers. Then they line up in their places, each one anxious for his turn in the snowman races.....Maybe they gather up their snowballs, the pitcher takes his aim and underneath the moonlit sky they play a baseball game. And the world's best snowball fight will start! So if you found your snowman lost his height, it must be have a good time at night!!

I like to see the movements of snowmen, they laugh, play, line up.....smile and have a fun...
What a wonderful snowmen party at night!

Silly Little Goose

Silly Little Goose by Nancy Tafuri

Do you know the animals live in different place in the farm?
hen, duck, goose : coop or chicken house (for 2 feet)
sheep: sheep-pen
pig : pig yard (pigsty)

There are still farmhouse, barn, garden, field, tool shed, pond....

One day, there was a  mother goose want to make a nest, she was looking forward for
someplace nice and warm. Guess what?  "Oink, Oink!"She picked up the pigsty!!!
 Oh, No! She found someplace nice and soft.  " Mew, Mew"Oh, No! That's kitten's home.
Maybe she could find someplace nice and quiet. "BAAA!" Oh, Silly Littly Goose,
that's sheep-pen.....how about someplace nice and cozy....."cheep, cheep! cluck, cluck!",
it's chicken house.

Activity:
1. animal's sound learning
2. Q&A
    2-1  Where is the first time the mother goose as her nest?
    2-2  Why the mother goose need to find a place to make a nest?
    2-3  What kind of conditions does the nest need for ?3
3. Matching game:
animal picture / sound word (oink..BAAA...)

Fidgety Fish

Fidgety Fish  by Ruth Galloway

The fish has a happy smile on his face but he was always fidgeting. His mom asked to go out into the sea and swim till he is exhausted but watch out for the big fish!!

Tiddler never listen up to their mom, like as nimo, remember his father told him not to close to the human's ship but he was still curious about all kind of new things then....he got caught by a man...

The main character Tiddler was just forgot what his mom told him. He was quite busy to dive and flip, to leap and dip.....He sped faster than a rocket....He still didn't feel tired!

It's really like to talking about kids with enerage to play all day long and never tired! Suddenly, a big fish swallowed him, how can he escape from the tummy? Haha....that is the best part....and I will not tell you....

A dog needs a bone!

A dog needs a bone!    story and pictures by Audrey Wood          Mitress, Kind mistress, please give me a bone, and I'll stay by your side, no more will I roam.  A wheat bone, a treat bone, a toy bone, a squeak bone... and old one, a new one, I simply must have something to chew on!  Will my mistress PLEASE give me a bone? I'll sweep your floors. I'll answer your phone. I'll treat you like a queen on a throne.  I'll never chase cats, or howl at the moon, or dig up your flowers in the hot afternoon, or play with the paper in your pink powder room.  If my mistress will PLEASE give me a bone! OH, NO! Where did she go? My mistress has left me. I'm sad and alone. What will I do when she is not home? I know....I'll snuggle the scarf she dropped on the floor.  Then I'll nap on her bed and have a good snore.

What's that? WOOF!

Could it be her car door?

"I'm home!" she called. "I've been to the store."

"There's something for you. Come over here, please.

Have a carrot, some broccoli, some squash, a few peas."

"No peas?" said my mistress. "I should have known."

Then she reached in a bag.............

AND PULLED OUT

A BONE!

 

 

 

TOMIE DEPAOLA

As my experiences I found our Taipei county library sorted Tomie's book by many ways and that made me waste a lot of time to collect all his pictures together at least 6 hours. What can I say? Like as the librarians  detroied the cover page by sticker.........it always on the wrong place?

 我喜歡這幾本書,有Strega Nona (Grandma Witch), The Knight and the dragon, Andy, Tomie每本書幾乎都是快樂的結局,他的幽默其實很溫馨,寫自己的故事,家人的故事,甚少有寫自己當時小朋友與自己爺爺奶奶的故事....讀完了Tomie許多大作(目前78歲仍在創作),希望Tomie能夠繼續帶給所有大小朋友歡樂.

自己創作及繪畫~約100本
與他人合作~約150本
全世界出版Tomie的書約1.5million本

Andy That's my name 很有趣的拼字練習的故事
Well, what do we do now?
Can I play?
No! You're too little~
Hey Gang! Look!  (ANDY)
That's my name...
Here kid! (Take out D & Y)
Okay! Everybody make a word!
CAN, FAN, MAN, PAN, RAN,TAN
Can I have my name back now?
No!
Put this at the end.  (D)
HAND, my turn (B) BAND, SAND, STAND, LAND, HANDY,
DANDY HANDY
SANDY  DANDY HANDY
CANDY SANDY DANDY HANDY
ooof.....boo!
Wait just a minute!
You won't let me play, so I'm going to take my name and go home!
I may be little, but I'm very important (ANDY)....then every single word fell down!

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

2010 hot movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"食破天驚,改編自同名繪本"Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" written by Judy Barret and Drawn by Ron Barrett

想一想如果食物可以自己從天上掉下來,該是多美好的事情呀...每天都有不同的新口味,早午晚餐都可以吃到不一樣的食物,媽媽也不用自己煮菜,太棒了,更不用被小朋友嫌棄天天吃一樣的菜色....怎麼想都是一個好主意....直到天上掉下來的食物不再是大家所期望的那該怎麼辦呢??引人入勝的故事情節(雖然故事封面沒有很吸引我,但是讀下去後覺得超有趣的呢~)如果你可以結合電影讓孩子觀賞,其實很不錯耶!(From Youtube part1, part2, and you can find part 3...4...)

On the way home

中外作家還蠻喜歡在小朋友"回家"這條路上安排許多驚險的刺激

或是奇遇,知名作家的繪本如英國超現實派插畫家Anthony Browne

安東尼布朗的"The tunnel", 日本林明子的"森林迷藏王", 英國John

Burningham約翰伯明罕的"The boy who was always late"都有好

多的冒險及趣味,當然我今天介紹給小朋友的"On the way home"

by Jill Murphy可是讓我相當有"fu"的呢~

Story : On the way home by Jill Murphy

Summary:

Claire the girl who had a bad knee cause she fell

down from swing in the playground but she met friends, she

told them not only one version interesting stories of the

fantastic adventure. (We knew that were all her imaginations.)

Activity:

1. Preview the cover page, teach the animal's name/sound

Do/copy the actions.....

2. Practice the Q&A :

Q: "What do you see in the picture?

A: "I see a/an _____(animal's name or....)

If the kids speak English well, you can ask single S to come

in front of book and point out what he saw then all Ss ask
the Q, the single S answers and do the action.

(or make the sound). If they were not, you can make Q then Ss make A.

3. Don't forget to make the gesture of Claire about the word

"Well~~~~" When I said that, all kids knew that another funny
animal would be show up then they liked to copy my prounciation

of it.

甘巴爹....米那桑, Enjoy the story...oh...no, the adventure.

P.S. Jill Murphy's books

The worst witch series
大象家族~

A piece of cake

Five mintues' peace

A quite night in

Big Chickens Fly the Coop

Big Chickens Fly the Coop by Leslie Helakoski/illustrated by Henry Cole (翻譯\摘自網路)
四隻膽小的雞，看到什麼都害怕，只有全部擠在雞舍中。一天牠們決定出去逛逛農舍，但是孤陋寡聞的牠們，誰也不知道農舍是什麼樣子。


首先，牠們來到狗窩，當然是遭到狗兒的一頓狂吠；接著又將一台拖拉機當成了農舍，最後又闖進穀倉，當然都沒有好下場。誰知道，其實農舍遠在天邊近在眼前，就在雞舍的隔壁。

一場冒險之旅就在糊貼頁農場的全景展開,讀者以全知的觀點看著這群膽小無知的hen在自己的雞舍裡討論著自己在家有多麼無聊,是否應該讓自己的人生有點甚麼不一樣的火花??全部決定要來一窺農舍的究竟,於是浩浩蕩蕩的開始無知又令人噴飯的探險之旅....
"這是屋頂嗎?","有一個門耶!","怎麼有一條尾巴??"......................天啊!!他們竟然闖入狗屋!!真是"狗養雞翻"呀!!趕快回到雞舍躲起來....但...又有人不安份的提議,我還是很想到農舍看看耶!
第2次,第3次的冒險.....把大家都搞得exhausting.....終於發現農舍其實就在雞舍旁呢...

挺有趣的,不過形容詞超多的,因為要押韻....讀的有點吃力,哈哈,找來了James練習,果真念起來有韻味多了....你也可以試試~Enjoy yourself!

The Lamb Who Came to Dinner

The Lamb Who Came to Dinner Steve Smallman/Joelle Dreidemy

Imagine the big bad wolf has also a soft heart???? There is a little lamb who knock the wolf's door and asks " Can I come in? just because the cold weather....." Was she not afraid of the big bad wolf??? But she was shivering with cold and the old wolf hate any "frozen food" or "rumbling tummy lamb" What do they both think about? The wold gave the lamb food over and over and the lamb feels warm and friendly from the old wolf. when they try to figure out the hiccup, everything they tried are failed then the lamb fell to sleep and snoring...... What will the old wolf do to the little lamb? Is it a good chance to eat it up or take a bite? No...The wolf didn't eat the little lamb but gave her a warm sweater and asked him to leave....Is it the end of the story? Of course not, the wolf is continuing worry about the little lamb " She might get lost!", "She might get frozen!", "She might get eaten! "????????? He regreted what he had done. He went out and looked for the little lamb. Finally he found the little lamb and gave her a big hug.....Lovely!

Not Now, Bernard

Not Now, Bernard

David McKee, one of the most increatable picture books authors as known in the world. The mom and dad that he described in the book were just like you and me with no doubting. 

We always said "Not now" to the kids and careless about their reactions, not even took a look of them. Oh, my gosh, Bernard was eaten by monster but no one found it! Mom is still busy for painting the wall and Dad is reading the newspapers......the monster feels bored and lonely without parents' notice. What should the monster say to Mom? "I'm really really a monster! not Bernard!" but Mom still feels nothing changed?

It's a very interesting book and I can see Dad and Mom always closed their eyes when they talked to their kids (incl. Bernald and monster).....You might be can find more points connecting to yourself?

James, don't become a monster, I will be always there when you need me!

Warthods paint

Warthogs paint ~ A messy color book

Have you ever seen any Africa warthogs before? Are they cute? I don't think so! Pamela D. Edwards and Henry Cole (illustrated) created a happy warthog family (although I could not recongize which is which?) I mean, Pamela didn't tell us who is who but we know all of them are tired of warthog play. What can they do in such a rainy day? Someone got an idea!! "Why don't we start to paint our wall with warthog art? You must not hear about warthod art? I think that means "Without any rules and do what you want to do."

I like they all enjoyed their paints after a lot of hard work (or play), you can see the rainbow and sun shine on the wall. Everyone can get a cup of special cocktail drink just like in the summer time~ Hooray~

If you want to tell a story about color, this definately is the 2nd choice and do you remember that I had introduced you the other one " Deep in the blue sea" that is supposed to No.1. (you can find it from my website)

Grumpy Cat

Do you like to keep a cat? Not me!

 I don't know why I just prefer dogs to cats. Perhaps I  had been scaried by cats before? Most of the story books about cats are so cute and lovely.

When I took this from a pile of story books , "Grumpy Cat" is not really my favor topic because I don't like cats.  Anyway, the cover page is totally attracted me, looked at the grumpy cat, I really feel his angry.....and innocence~

If you are alone now, you can read this book then you will firmly feel the friendship between you and the cat. I like the picture, simple but you can easy to understand the story by every movement. Enjoy it.

Hooray for fish!

What is the most joyful time for the little fish?

Swim with Little Fish and meet all his fishy friends in this splishy, splashy riot of color and rhyme under the sea is quite fun. And I heard the little fish is very popular in Japan!!

Hooray for Fizi! is an animated series based on the enormously successful picture book Hooray for Fish! by acclaimed British children's author Lucy Cousins, famous for the Maisy series.

Here is the introduction of this little fish named "Fizi" from website:


"Fizi lives happily with his mother in a coral house. Everyday events and activities give rise to the adventures of Fizi and his friends, which form the focus for each episode. Some of Fizi's adventures include counting the bubbles erupting from a crater, making friends with a crab in Ms. Penny's coral kindergarten, and surfing the swirling ocean currents. Sometimes he even ventures further afield, where he meets new fishy friends and encounters new adventures. Fizi's underwater world is filled with fun and excitement.

This animated series teaches children the importance of application, caring for others, helpfulness and team-work."

All my kids in kindergarton and 3rd graders love this story, how about you?

ideas:
1. Where is the little fish? Finding it from each page.
2. Eye fish? Sky fish? Ele-fish? Create your own fish!