Title: Each Peach Pear Plum Authors: Janet and Allen Ahlberg File Under: Read-Aloud, Picture Book Age Group: Nursery-Rhyme set and indeed all ages To me, the test of a good book for any age is whether you can read it out loud the required one million times without throwing it across the room. The test of… Read More »
Nursery Rhymes in the Library Project
Title: Original Mother Goose, The Real Mother Goose (two versions of the same basic book) Author: Mother Goose, illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright File Under: Nursery Rhymes, Read-Aloud, Education, Collective Memory Age Group: Tiny tots — even babes in arms — on up. Dear Kristen, loyal reader, reminded me to bring the Library Project back around to books… Read More »
The inimitable P. G. Wodehouse in the Library Project.
Title: Thank You, Jeeves Author: P. G. Wodehouse Genre: Humor, Read-Aloud, Short Stories (Wodehouse wrote about 99 books and plays; I recommend this one to start with, followed by Right Ho, Jeeves, which contains the truly epic Market Snodsbury address by Gussie Finknottle*, and then there’s no stopping you, but Blandings Castle could be next —… Read More »
Warm family life. ~ Library Project
Title: The Trolley Car Family Author: Eleanor Lowenton Clymer File Under: Chapter book Age Range: 8 and up* I came across this book in the vintage edition that you see in the photo about ten years ago, at a yard sale. What a sweet, lively book! I know that if we had had it… Read More »