{"id":19963,"date":"2020-03-03T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T23:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=19963"},"modified":"2020-03-06T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:45:48","slug":"picture-book-highlights-author-coo-cro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2020\/20200303-19963.htm","title":{"rendered":"Picture Book Highlights (Author COO-CRO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite being a shorter-than-average month (even with that leap day), February was a productive reading month. I read 83 children’s picture books with an author last name “C”. In large part, I think this was due to my decision to try to spend just a little bit of time with each child individually each day (usually right before their naps). I’ve mostly spent that time reading aloud (what else?) When I don’t have to wait for everyone to be ready to listen together, it makes reading aloud tons easier – and has allowed me to power through a lot more of our picture books. We have maybe 40 or 50 more books to go until we’re done with author last name C – we’ll likely finish those out in March!<\/p>\n

Homer<\/em> by Elisha Cooper<\/strong><\/div>\n

Homer<\/p>\n

The dog, Homer, is offered lots of opportunities to go out and do all sorts of interesting things. He’d rather lie on the front porch and watch it all. He delights to hear everyone’s stories of all the exciting things they’ve done, but mostly, he likes to be at home with everyone he loves around him. I can identify. :-)<\/p>\n

Petra<\/em> by Marianna Coppo<\/strong><\/div>\n

Petra<\/p>\n

A little rock has great dreams – but what will he become? A simple, short book that’s just right to keep the interest of all four of our little ones (5, 3, 2, and 19 months.)<\/p>\n

Little Pig Joins the Band<\/em> by David Costello<\/strong><\/div>\n

Little Pig Joins the Band<\/p>\n

When all his big siblings make a brass band, Little Pig wants to join too, but none of the instruments fit him. He’s able to find his place, though – a much needed place – as band leader, getting them all to play together in time.<\/p>\n

What Elephant?<\/em> by Genevieve Cote<\/strong><\/div>\n

What Elephant?<\/p>\n

A cute little story that helps to explain the saying “the elephant in the room.”<\/p>\n

The Road Home<\/em> by Katie Cotton, illustrated by Sarah Jacoby<\/strong><\/div>\n

The Road Home<\/p>\n

More a poem than a story, with art that’s visual poetry. Animal mothers invite their children to join them in their tasks before ending with a refrain: “This road is hard, this road is long, this road that leads us home.” And then it ends, “This road is hard, this road is long, but we are not alone. For you are here, and I’m with you… and so this road is home.” Just lovely.<\/p>\n

Don’t Be Silly, Mrs. Millie<\/em> by Judy Cox, illustrated by Joe Mathieu<\/strong><\/div>\n

Don't Be Silly Mrs. Millie!<\/p>\n

This is not fine literature, but Mrs. Millie’s silly mis-speaks had my two oldest (5 and 3) roaring with laughter all the way through. Mrs. Millie instructs her students to “hang up your goats” at the beginning of the day and keeps making “mistakes” with rhyming words and sound-alikes all day long. “We have parrot sticks and quackers today!” Very fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite being a shorter-than-average month (even with that leap day), February was a productive reading month. I read 83 children’s picture books with an author last name “C”. In large part, I think this was due to my decision to try to spend just a little bit of time with each child individually each day … Read more Picture Book Highlights (Author COO-CRO)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19963"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19998,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions\/19998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}