Mother's Day

Mother's Day, the first Thursday in May, is a day set apart for honoring all mothers.

Mothers are honored in many other countries, on different days and with different customs. However, mothers the world over like to receive flowers and candy in honor of their day.

Mother's Day books:-

Celebrating Mother's Day - Shelly Nielsen
Mother's Day - Ann Heinrichs

The books relate the history of Mother's Day and how it is celebrated, how Mother's Day began, Presidents and their mother...

The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV, Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain

Stan and Jan Berenstain illustrate a wonderful children book series on the Bear Family.

Papa, Mama, Brother, and Sister Bear live in a cozy little tree house in Bear Country. Mama Bear does not allow her family to spend too much time in front of the TV for a week. The Bear family finds ways to have fun and keep themselves busy. They watch less TV when they are allowed and they do not even miss the TV.

Ricardo's mum, Catherine thinks the book is great for children, as it is relatively short and very simple. He likes the book and Berenstain Bears Series books. Ricardo likes to watch Berenstain Bears Series on Treehouse TV, Canada. To read it again in book, it really grasps Ricardo's interest, according to Catherine.

Little tips from Catherine: when you read the story to your kids, make sure it is only the story you're reading. Otherwise, it'll sounds too much like preaching...

Let's celebrate Easter...

Easter is here... Full of information about Easter in this book, Easter by Pam Robson. The book relates the reason to eat chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday, the story about Easter celebration... all about Easter. It is a fun book to read and educative.





Have fun with these activities in this Easter:
http://blackdog4kids.com/holiday/easter/
http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/easter.htm

Dinosaurs by David Hately

The book put dinosaur size into perspective. Dinosaurs mean "terrible lizards". It is a great choice for a small dino lover liked Ricardo...

Cocky's Circle Little Books - Great Early Readers

The Crazy, Hazy Day
In a crazy and hazy day, everything could be happened. Leaves turned grey and tree turned blue. Lamb went moo and pig went baa. What’s wrong with them? This is an interesting story. I would like to recommend Cocky’s Circle Little Books to our children. Easy to read and educative……… Agnes, mother of two children

The Magic Porridge Pot (Ladybird Tales)

I am six years old and studying primary one. My mother always buys lots of story books for me to read. I love this magic porridge pot and it is funny. I also like eating. If I had such magic pot, I could cook food by myself……… Chloe

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

The story begins five o'clock in the morning with 2 ladybirds, a friendly one and a grouchy one meet on the leaf. The grouchy ladybird wants to fight with the friendly one, who wants to share aphids on a leaf. However, the grouchy ladybird feels the friendly one is not large enough for him to fight.

The grouchy ladybird flies around and meets insects, bird and animals, increasing in size as he goes along. He challenges each one of them to fight but turns down each time, making the same excuse, "Oh, you're not big enough". Lastly, he meets a whale, the largest known animal. He challenges the whale to fight. When he finally challenges the whale's tail, his tail slaps him and sends him flying back to where he starts earlier in the morning... He decides to be nice and shares the aphids with the friendly ladybird.

The book is interesting, the size of the page increases in proportion to that of the animal. The book is also very colourful. There is even an analog clock on every page that shows the time of day that the grouchy ladybird flies.