Perfect Square is our top pick for the week – we ALL love it! It’s a wonderful book about making the most of whatever life throws at you, with beautifully creative illustrations. I found this book via Stacey Loscalzo’s guest blog at The Artful Parent – we’re enjoying the two other books she recommended in that post as well!
Fluffy and Baron was a random pull-off-the-library-shelf find, but another that we all love! It’s based on a true story about the author’s dog and duck being friends, and there are photos at the end of the book of the real dog and duck. The illustrations are delightfully friendly, and I think stories of unexpected friendship – especially true tales – are always inspiring.
Willow made me cry – in a good way. I’m pretty sure it was sleep deprivation thanks to sick kids plus pregnancy hormones talking, but there is something very touching about someone discovering truly expressive art! We found this book through Snacks and Stories – be sure to check out the fun snack Christy came up with to go with this book! Emma (soon-to-be 6!) and I are the most appreciative of this book; Johnny (4) and Lily (2) seem a bit young for it.
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MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
I keep wanting to check out Willow, I think I heard somewhere else about this book. Perfect Square looks interesting too! Thanks for joining WMCIR!
I think you would really enjoy both Willow and Perfect Square.
Willow sounds like a great read!
I am always excited to see your posts about books, we always end up enjoying your excellent recommendations.
Apparently I am going to have to look for Willow!
I’ll have to check these out – thanks for the recommendations! BTW – I cry sometimes with Children’s books too – The 3rd Knuffle Bunny installment did me in most recently!
I’ll have to look for that one – haven’t read it yet!
Hi! I think it was my guest post at Artful Parent… link here http://staceyloscalzo.com/2012/01/artful-parent-post-2/. I’m quite sure that is when you first came to visit my blog :) So glad you loved it- we do too!
Hooray!!! Thank you, Stacey – that was it! I’ve edited the post with the correct information!
I work in a library and it’s a shame we don’t have those in our collection- oh, we do have Willow. Thank you for renewing your books, any librarian would appreciate that :)
Awwww, I want to find Fluffy and Baron, it looks so cute!
I love it when you recommend picture books! I found “Press Here” from you, and it’s an all-time favorite.
Yay!!! “Press Here” is an all-time favorite here, too!
I had to laugh when you said Willow made you cry…everything makes me cry…good and bad! I’m just that kind of woman! :)
Same here…
Those sound cute. I’ll have to see if our library has Willow.
Ha! I think we’ve been renewing some of our books for 2 years!
We have a nine-week limit, or we might do that too!