Select books about the lessons and joys of childhood:
Showing posts with label The Quiet Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Quiet Book. Show all posts
Saturday, May 28, 2011
5. Books to Grow On
Friday, June 4, 2010
Books to Calm a Frazzled Traveler
The Quiet Book
by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Renata Liwska
Houghton Mifflin
$12.95, ages 4-8, 32 pages
This enchanting book visits some of the ways animals like be quiet and will inspire your little one to find his calm time too.
On one page a little bunny does stretches before anyone else wakes up. On another, a porcupine perched on a stool in a birthday hat makes a wish with all of his might.
In my favorite, two best friends, a bear and rabbit, chase waves on a beach together, contented in the silence of their play.
Liwska's illustrations are as soft and sweet as well-loved toys. What a wonderful way to segue into a little impromptu quiet time.
Over the Rainbow
illustrated by Eric Puybaret, with the voice of Judy Collins
Imagine Publishing, Inc., 2010
$17.95, ages 4-8, 26 pages
As a storm clears, a rainbow pours out of a cloud into a girl's window, beckoning her to crawl up its path to a magical place in the sky in this breathtaking adaptation of Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's song, "Over the Rainbow."
The girl, dressed in a soft-white night gown, sees a woman joyfully leaping off a cloud shaped like an outstretched hand, then follows her lead to play among the planets and moon, and soar with long-necked birds.
Readers will think they're already dreaming when they open the book and turn on the CD of Grammy Award-winner Collins' singing the classic song. Bring along a portable CD player and watch little faces grow serene.
My Circus
written and illustrated by Xavier Deneux
Bloomsbury, 2010
$9.99, ages baby and up, 18 pages
In this whimsical board book, readers are invited into the big top to see magical sights, from a clown blowing droplets of water from a horn onto a daisy to acrobats balancing on wobble boards.
Just 6 inches square, the book is printed mainly in red, black and white, with simple, graphic images that tie one circus act to the next through cut-out windows. (An acrobat's striped shorts on one page later becomes part of the belly of a zebra jumping through a hoop on another.)
This little gem is just the thing to make your toddler forget he's been belted into a car seat longer than he likes.
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