2014

I think these must all be from the Cybils shortlist. Lord knows I wouldn’t read another Elephant & Piggie book unless it was on the list. Or JMP picked it out himself. He didn’t, so it must be. A Big Guy Took My Ball was one of my least favorite in the series. Mo Willems can do better and has done better. These need to stop being added to the Cybils shortlist — they’ve jumped the shark.

Penny and Her Marble, sigh, I have a fondness for Kevin Henkes unfortunately, none of the children I’ve read to on a regular basis seem to share my fondness. JMP liked this one well enough. It was long and I don’t think he knows what a marble IS (which I admit is my fault — the book is intended for slightly older children) maybe he’ll like it more when he’s older.

Open This Little Book was super adorable. JMP wanted to turn all of the pages — sometimes more quickly than I could read the words, which is saying something since you can’t really fit that many readable words onto some of those tiny pages. So far, this is my favorite (I think) from the Cybils children’s books we’ve read.

I read some of these in August. Some in September. Whatevs. I think some are Cybils but I won’t know until I finish writing this and go take a peek. Most were just impulse pick ups from library visits with JMP.

Melvin Might was awesome because JMP LOVES TRUCKS. ALL THE TRUCKANOW. I wish this series had an iPhone app instead of games that you can play on your computer. Trucktown really needs an app y’all. I think we need all of the Trucktown books.

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild — and gets naked and roars and stuff. I think this was a Cybil. JMP liked it and I liked it. Animals can be so stuck up and judgy, ya know?

Pick a Pup was adorbs. At least I thought so. JMP wasn’t so sure. I don’t think he groks the concept of choosing a puppy. Why would he when he is surrounded by dogs. Dogs just happen in JMP’s world.

Never Poke a Squid. Well. That’s a good rule. However the book was a jumbled mess of I don’t even know what and I should have just ad-libbed my way through. I might read it again, to JMP, and make up my own damn story because the one in the book… I couldn’t even tell you how the squid got poked. I’m not sure we ever found out.

It’s that time again. Time for me to read my children’s books than anything else. 😉

Tractor is a cute little touch & feel type board book. JMP likes tractors.

Woof! Woof! was the dumbest board book EVER. I only looked at the first page while in the library and that was cute. It was three DUMB pages long. Total waste of time.

That’s Not My Panda was … cute enough. The author has a whole series of these and I’m not super impressed. Reading one was enough.

Boats was nice. JMP likes boats. It’s a nice book for new readers with vocabulary words in it. Very nice.

The Pet Project is from the Cybils shortlist. A little girl wants a pet and her parents make her research pets. She finds out that she’s not really a pet person.

Count the Monkeys is also from the Cybils shortlist. I umm went off the rails and did some special grandma cursing, which amused JMP’s mom. It was cute but the monkey pay off at the end wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. Too many monkeys to count.