Foraging for books at the library #100books

I grabbed as many classics as I could find. Classics that everyone will recognise, like The Gruffalo (which at least has realistic relationships between the animals all sizing each up as a snack) and classics that I suspect just our family love, like One Gorilla: A Magical Counting Book. (I love this one for being a book where the pictures are beautiful drawings with the creatures you are counting just naturally placed. Smallest loves this book because it has a page of cats 🙂 ). Then there’s Daddy’s Lullaby, about a daddy who comes home from a long working week to find a small person awake and unhappy in a quiet house. Probably better not tell the health visitor how they end up falling asleep though :/.

Then there’s Hold Tight! which I thought we had as a board book, but Amazon doesn’t seem to agree with me, about a poor put upon grandbear trying to do the laundry and being distracted by baby bear and his box, and a new one to me, A Dragon on the Doorstep , which Smallest seems to quite like, probably because of the brightness of the illustrations.

And with that, we’ve spilled a little over into February.

I hope you’ll forgive us for not quite finishing our challenge in January. We’re going to keep reading and reviewing until we’ve notched up that 100 books, and then we’re going to keep going until we’ve raised the money for that library we want to fund. I hope you’ll keep right on reading along with us.

Books 57, 58, 59, 60 and 61 of 100.

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