Book Review: Yellow and Round

This book is a cute and fun way to teach your baby about opposites, with a hole in the middle so that it's easy for babies to grab and help turn the pages. But it's written in cursive, which is odd for any kid's book. I mean, they don't learn how to read cursive until like 3rd grade, right? So maybe I shouldn't be thinking about that when my baby is just at the stages of learning to turn the page and look at the pictures, and not even close to learning how to read the words. But this cursive is the kind of cursive that's even hard for me to read. And I come from a family with a history of some seriously bad penmanship, so if I'm having a hard time reading the damn cursivey words, I can't imagine the struggles other parents across America are having with this book! Luckily, though- there is only one word on each page, so once you figure it out it's not so bad.

Book Review: Rooster's Off to See the World

I can't tell you much about this book. We checked it out from the library because my son has enjoyed other books by Eric Carle (The Grouchy Ladybug, The Very Hungry Caterpillar). During the time we had the book at our house, I tried several times to open it and read it to the little boy. The rooster goes off and finds two other animals, then three other animals, then four. I assume it keeps going like that but we barely ever made it past three. After about 3 pages of this book, he batted it out of my hands or took it and threw it to the ground. Sound like he's being fussy and just isn't in the mood for reading? No, at 13 months, he was totally happy when I picked another book- ANY other book- off the shelf to read to him. There was just something about the Rooster book that he was NOT havin' any of it!

Book Review: Very Hairy Bear

This book is to kid's books what Public Enemy was to rap. What Red Hot Chili Peppers are to rock. There, I made the comparison. Only because of they way they use words to rhyme within the lines to tell the story, and not in the traditional last-word-of-each-line rhyme. I don't know a better way to describe it, it's just really well written. And my son enjoyed it.