Monday, September 12, 2011

Sunflare Kind of Day

Today was the kind of day that reminds you that, though the children may be back in school and Halloween decorations are taking center stage in the stores, summer isn't over yet.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Year of One Thousand Books

Grace and I are reading 1000 books this year -- her last before she starts kindergarten. Each book only counts once, though most are read (at least) several times.

August 27, 2011 - September 11, 2011

1.     How Do You Hug a Porcupine?    Laurie  Isop        
2.     Make Van Gogh's Bed    Julie Appel
3.     How the Grinch Stole Christmas Dr. Seuss
4.     The New Friend  Holly Hobbie
5.     I'll Be Home for Christmas  Holly Hobbie
6.     The Sounds Around Town   Maria Carluccio
7.     How the Rooster Saved the Day  Arnold Lobel
8.     Angelina's Halloween Katharine Holabird
9.     Angelina Ballerina  Katharine Holabird
10.   The Great Blueness Arnold Lobel
11.   The Relatives Came Cynthia Rylant
12.   Olivia Goes to Venice Ian Falconer
13.   The Day the Babies Crawled Away  Peggy Rathman
14.   A House is a House for Me  Mary Ann Hoberman
15.   A Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson
16.   Frog and Toad Together Arnold Lobel
17.   Painting with Picasso
18.   Ruby Valentine
19.   Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch
20.   Mole Music David McPhail
21.   Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear Eric Carle
22.   Gossie  Olivier Dunrae
23.   Fancy Nancy at the Museum  Jane O'Conner
24.   I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie Alison Jackson
25.   I Can Fly Ruth Krauss
26.   The Little Fat Policeman Margaret Wise Brown and Edith Thatcher Hurd
27.   Madeline's Christmas  Ludwig Bemelmans
28.   Curious George H.A. Rey 
29.   Name that Dog   Peggy Archer 
30.   Richard Scarry's Mother Goose  Richard Scarry
31.   Little Dracula's Christmas
32.   The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
33.   Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas  Jane O'Connor
34.   Olivia Acts Out
35.   Harry and the Lady Next Door
36.   Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
37.   We're Going on a Bear Hunt
38.   The Story of Ferdinand  Mu nro Leaf
39.   Biscuit Meets the Class Pet  Alyssa Satin Capucilli
40.   Martha Gives Advice
41.   Lola at the Library  Anna McQuinn
42.   The Tooth Book  Theo LeSieg
43.   Mommy?  Maurice Sendak
44.   Wheels  Annie Cobb
45.   Dr. Suess' ABC
46.   Go, Dog, Go!  P.D. Eastman
47.   Ten Apples Up On Top!  Theo LeSieg
48.   Goodnight Max  Rosemary Wells
49.   Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?  Dr. Seuss
50.   A Book of Sleep  Il Sung Na
51.   The Cat in the Hat  Dr. Seuss
52.   My Dog Toby  Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha
53.   I Kissed the Baby!  Mary Murphy
54.   Knuffle Bunny  Mo Willems
55.   Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit  Il Sung Na
56.   Everywhere Babies  Susan Meyers
57.   The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!  Mo Willems
58.   What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby?  Cressida Cowell
59.   If I Ran the Zoo  Dr. Seuss
60.   Knuffle Bunny, Too  Mo Willems
61.   Charlie and Lola's Opposites  Lauren Child
62.   The Carrot Seed  Ruth Krauss
63.   Whistle for Willie  Ezra Jack Keats
64.   A Butterfly is Patient  Dianna Hutts Aston
65.   Caps for Sale  Eshyr Slobodkina
66.   Oscar...The Big Adventure of a Little Sock Monkey  Amy Schwartz and Leonard Marcus
67.   Swine Lake   James Marshall
68.   No Place for a Pig   Suzanne Bloom
69.   Hardworking Puppies  Lynn Reiser
70.   Follow the Line  Laura Ljungkvist
71.   Over in the Meadow  Louise Voce
72.   The Maestro Plays  Bill Martin, Jr.
73.   Skippyjon Jones
74.   Abuela
75.   The Giant Jam Sandwich
76.   The Sneaky Sheep
77.   Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
78.   Angelina Balllerina's 123
79.   Dappled Apples Jan Carr
80.   Too Many Tamales  Gary Soto
81.   A Halloween Mask for Monster  Virginia Mueller
82.   Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?  Bill Martin
83.   Counting Kisses  Karen Katz
84.   George and Martha  James Marshall
85.   The Mixed Up Chameleon (Library story time)
86.   One Smart Goose  (Library story time)
87.   If You Give a Pig a Pancake (Library story time)
88.   Not Norman (library story time)
89.   Wolf's Coming (library story time)
90.   There are Cats in this Book  Viviane Schwarz
91.   Ladybug Girl at the Beach  David Soman and Jacky Davis
92.   Dog Brain  David Milgrim
93.   Bounce  by Doreen Cronin
94.   Rollo Bones, Canine Hypnotist  Marshall Moyer
95.   The Lorax  Dr. Seuss
96.   When I was Young in the Mountains  Cynthia Rylant
97.   Where the Wild Things Are  Maurice Sendak
98.   First the Egg
99.   Rain Makes Applesauce
100. Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones  Judy Schachner