“We really need a read-a-thon!”
A quiet chuckle and then, “Yeah – look at this.”
So, we sat. Quietly. Reading together.
Children’s books really are the best -the equivalent of YouTube shorts to get into the act of reading:
To turn a fun read into a whimsical time,
To turn a chuckle into a snort,
A laugh into a guffaw,
A sigh into a wistful longing.
🦌🦅🐿️🐦⬛🦢The day’s books were awe-worthy all right. I am just outlining a few here, but it serves to reiterate our need to dedicate a few hours every week to children’s books – the art, information, story-telling is all it takes to remind us that the world holds space for beautiful , gentle, innocent things. We just have to stop and enjoy them, and if possible contribute to make it all the more wondrous in our turn. 🦌🦅🐿️🐦⬛🦢
🦌This is how we do it – by Matt Lamothe
This booklegger award winning book takes the look of seven kids from around the world and shows us that we aren’t all that very different whether we live in a tiny hut in Uganda with a small family, or a large family in the hills of Peru, or in a multi story building in Italy, The author’s idea of profiling 7 children from Japan, Peru, Iran, Russia, India Italy and Uganda is brilliantly done. The similarities and differences are beautifully illustrated.
🦅If You Run Out of Words – Felicita Sala
This book is whimsy itself. It reminds us of the beautiful reason we love children. For they say and ask the darndest things. In this book, the child asks her father what would happen if he ran out of words. Flabbergasted is what should have happened, but he rallies. Assuring his little girl that he would to to magical elves and get the words he needs. If that doesn’t work, well, he would go underwater, into other universes and find what he needs – even if he runs out of all the words there are, he wouldn’t ever run out of the 3 most precious words to say before putting his daughter to bed, would he now?
🐿️From Tree to Sea – By Shelley Moore Thomas & Illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal
This book is for those in quiet moods. What would the whale teach you? To dream big and take small steps? What would the mountain teach you, the sea? The artwork is comforting, serene and perfect for quiescent summer afternoons.
🦢Creature Features – By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
A curious book that tells us odd things about animals around us – why does the babirusa have dangerous tusks? (Babirusa is not an animal we think of on a regular basis is it? Nor is the spicebush swallowtail caterpillar or the thorny devil if you come to think of it. Just for that, it is well worth picking up books like these in my opinion)
🐘Astonishing Animals By Tim Flannery & Peter Schouten
An astounding book of creatures with different superpowers – the motion specialists, shape shifters, vertical ocean dwellers and so much more. I will probably have another post or so for this book because of the captivating illustrations, the interesting details about the fascinating creatures brought alive in the pages of the book.
What do you think? Which children’s books would you recommend?
Nourish-n-Cherish 