You are not my mother. You are a Snort!

Have you ever gone to the library, grabbed a few potentially interesting books, got home and started reading them, and they are all duds?

Or you know those books that your 2 year old always insists on reading but you, as the parent, just don't get? I'm looking to you, Go, Dog, Go!

Maybe I am hard to please, but sometimes great children's books are hard to come by. I like my children's books to entertain both myself and my child.

Well, this past library visit was very successful. Yay! And because I am currently obsessed with amazing kid books, here are a few you may want to check out...

A Cat Named Tim and Other Short Stories

Dave read this one to the kids the other night and the laughs coming from those 3 were infectious! This one is a mostly wordless picture book and a collection of short stories. If you read it, my favorite is the one with spaghetti.


Room for Bear

Oh, this one is so cute. It's about a bear and his duck family and how they literally fit each other in their lives. I like cute stories.


A Mountain of Friends

This is a very short, fun book. The story is about how a group of friends help make a little penguins dream come true. I can't tell you more because it would give the book away. Just read it.

The BEST Kid Books

Let's pretend I'm Oprah for a moment and you care about what my favorite things are.

Okay. Great idea, you say.

Then let's get to it.
I love spending money on hardbound, quality children's books--the kind of books that both my kids and I will read over and over again. There are some real winners out there right now and I'm trying to keep up with all of them. So here is my current list of my most favorite books to read with my kids.

Journey by  Aaron Becker. This is a no-words picture book*. The drawings and story telling are exquisite and the girls can't get enough of this one.

*Confession: I am really bad at "reading" wordless picture books. Soph and Sabrina like me to talk over the book and I never know what to say to describe each scene! The book is still great, though.

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Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann. I have always been a huge fan of this book. I only have a flimsy version of this book and the pages got torn out and put back in the wrong place (my doing). So now, we get to buy a new copy. By the way, everything by Peggy Rathmann is wonderful such as: 10 Minutes Till Bedtime, The Day the Babies Crawled Away, and Officer Buckle and Gloria.

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Anything by Mo Willems. He's a crowd pleaser and the modern day Dr. Seuss according to some review I saw somewhere.

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 Stuck (or "Duck" if you pronounce it the way Sabrina does) by Oliver Jeffers. This is a recent discovery and the entire family L-O-V-E-S this one.

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I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen. Simple and hilarious.

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 Adele and Simon by Barbara McClintock. This is a find and seek book that will keep little people busy looking for lost items in the story.

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And that is my list. 

Now, if you will look under your chair you will find one of these books as a free gift from Barnes and Noble! 

Just kidding. That was me trying to be Oprah again.

What are some of your favorite children's books?