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Have you heard of Paul Galdone? He takes classic children’s stories and illustrates them beautifully, and he is the author of the month for the Virtual Book Club for Kids! This was a new-to-me author/illustrator, and the kids and I enjoyed reading his books! Here are a few of our favorites, along with links to activities you can complete with them, if you would like.
Make a batch of bread to go with The Little Red Hen! Baking soda rolls are an easy alternative to regular yeast bread – no rising required! Or, you can get fancy and make pizza! I haven’t found my favorite recipe for any of these, yet, but if I do I’ll update this post! This book is also a great one to read if you are planting a garden with your kids this spring!
Make these adorable fleece bears to go with The Three Bears story! You can even enlarge or shrink the pattern as you print it to make a larger or smaller bear. You can do the same thing with our fashion bears, and you can use different size shoebox lids to make their beds!
Anatole is not a classic children’s story, and it is written by Eve Titus (illustrated by Paul Galdone). The story was too cute not to include here. A father mouse creatively finds a way to earn food for his family – by secretly sampling cheeses for a cheese company, and leaving feedback! We also thoroughly enjoyed the sequel to this book: Anatole and the Cat. A great follow-up activity for this book is to let your children play cheese critic! You may find some new favorites that you never would have discovered otherwise! This is an activity our family does about once a month, and all of our kids always enjoy it, even when they decide not to add the new cheese to their list of favorites!
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Do you have a favorite Paul Galdone book? How about Marcus Pfister – next month’s author?
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
this books are great! my kids loves to read to,they enjoy seeing beautiful colors and characters in the books while i’m the one who reads it for them..The Anatole book and the Three Bears looks great! My kids will surely love to have one of this.. They love Animals, Flowers, Etc. anything that has something to do with nature..And i think its good, bec at their young age they are being able to appreciate the beauty of out nature.. They have this butterfly coloring book that they really love.. Bec they see many colors in this book, This book has quality images and this book allows them to color the beautiful butterflies in it which makes them have fun while i am reading the book to them that makes them learn more about the different types of butterflies.. This book is great you might want to include it in your list..
What a neat coloring book!
I love how you put activities to go along with the books!
I love the idea of the cheese sampling! Due to import restrictions in Australia, a variety of cheese is something we do not have here, but we have gotten pretty good at discerning our favourite of the various cheddars available!
I hadn’t realized that Australia had such strict import restrictions – wow! At least there is a lot of variety in Cheddar cheeses! We loved the crumbly cheddars in the UK – those are hard to find in the US!
How fun to play cheese critic! I had forgotten about Anatole but I’m sure I’ve read it at some point. Thank you for the reminder – I need to try to find that one to read to my girls.
I hadn’t read any of the Anatole books until I started looking for books by this author. That’s what I love about the Virtual Book Club!
Can I play cheese critic? ;) I love cheese and so does my kiddo so I imagine we’d have a ball re-enacting this story.
I don’t have a favorite Paul Galdone but we certainly have many of his books on our shelf. The kiddos love reading the familiar tales over and over again.
Anatole book sounds wonderful – I have to check it out! We read several books illustrated by Paul Galdone and loved them all.
The pictures from the Little Red Hen version look really familiar, I wonder if it’s one of the random ones I had at one time.