300 picture books wk 3. Or thereabouts

Continuing our 300 picture book trek – another good week, including our first library visit. Last week we got up to 23 books, this week we’re totalling 35.

35. Bubble trouble
36. UFO diary. Satoshi Kitamura
37. Books always everywhere @nosycrow
38. The littlest dinosaur @KidsBloomsbury
39. Rosie’s walk
40. Rex wrecks it
41. Grandad Pot
42. Goodnight Tiptoe Polly Dunbar
43. The Hueys in the new jumper
44. The disgusting sandwich.
45. Edward goes exploring
46. The whales’ song.

Lots of fabulous books in there. Meta book about books in Books always everywhere from nosycrow, while Goodnight Tiptoe from Polly Dunbar is rapidly becoming a new family favourite. Edward goes exploring will I suspect inspire some educational wildlife walks as the weather improves.

Bubble trouble isn’t one to read when you’re too tired – it’s tongue tying twisters that were challenging at bedtime. Pictures are gorgeous though, and it is a lovely story.

UFO Diary (Amazon link) is very gentle, perfectly illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, who is one of my favourites I think. I did a feature on his work during 300 Picture books last year.

I’m thinking of doing features on different author/illustrators again this year. I have a couple of Eric Carle books from the library this week, so I might see if I can find a few others and focus on him. Bound to be a few art activities out there as well we can do, and make it a focus of our week.

Or, just discovered The Book People have 10 Julia Donaldson/Alex Scheffler books for £12. Very tempting. I could buy two sets and do a giveaway on the second one….maybe for another week!

I have to say that making sure that pretty much every day we read at least one new book is a really good habit. Alongside the picture books we’re also reading Songbirds phonic readers, and some longer excerpts – last night was a section from a Moomin book, featured in A Little, Aloud, for Children which is a great selection. I also picked up another read aloud longer book from a charity shop, but it’s disappeared. Never mind. Will show up at some point.

So, what have you been reading? Are you following along with #300PBs and if so, where? Do let me know.