It is definitely the case that I only keep up with these posts if I run them in draft through the week.
It was feeling like a rather poor reading week until we had a bit of a binge at the library today. (And yes I know today isn’t really part of the week, but if I don’t write them up now, they’ll never get included.)
So we took a bunch of books back to the library. Read a pile there, and brought back another haul.
We also read:
Plum and the winter ball. This one annoys me slightly. I know it’s fairyland and all that, but what is the picking fruit in the snow thing about? Just no.
Twigs and the wishing pebble. This is a TV tie in with Tree Fu Tom, and it doesn’t really work desperately well in book form – you can’t copy the dance routine desperately easily. Although if you’re 4 and you’ve watched it so many times you’ve memorised it, that obviously isn’t quite so much of a problem.
Home Alex T Smith. Despite following Alex on twitter for ages, this is the first time I’ve read any of his work. I liked it. Full review following on Shingle Street.
Mog and the Bunny.
Goodnight Spot.
Katie and the British Artists. This is a fun introduction to ‘proper’ art although I shuddered slightly at the idea of Katie drawing on the picture. What can I say? I have some control issues.
Bear, Bird and Frog. This one I won on being a mummy – thanks Clare. We read it this morning when it appeared in the post, and I really like it. I was surprised at the moment of danger that is introduced, but it’s resolved quite quickly, so Smallest didn’t have time to get worked up about it.
Gruffalo’s child! How could I forget this? (Especially as it’s a board book and got left in the bed and I sat on it and hurt my backside! )
And then at the library we read these.
So that’s 78 at home and 11 in the library, making a grand total of 1819 read this week (and a day).
So, our numeric tally. 1819 picture books read 5556/300 (19%)
Books bought – 0.
Prizes – 1.
Books disposed of. 0
Library books borrowed – 10 (34 cumulative)
I’m sure I’ve forgotten (at least) one. Gah. Eta the Gruffalo’s child.
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