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.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia for children. There are seven books in the series. The first one is "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

Four Pevensie children are evacuated from London due to World War II. They are sent to live with Professor Digory Kirke. While playing hide and seek, one of them, Lucy discovers a mysterious wardrobe. She finds herself in a snow-covered forest with a lamp post in the centre.

She meets a faun, who names is Tumnus. He tells her the land is called Narnia which is ruled by a ruthless White Witch. So Narnia is always winter but never Christmas. Later Lucy returns to the world and reenter Narnia. She brings Edmund along. He meets the White Witch who introduces herself as the Queen of Narnia. She offers him Turkish delight and promises him that she will make him King of Narnia eventually if he bring the other children to her house...



This fantasy children novel is adapted in radio play and films too.

There are seven books in The Chronicles of Narnia. They are adventure and interesting...

Mr. Men by Roger Hargreaves

Mr. Men is children's books, writtien by Roger Hargreaves from 1971. He also wrote Little Miss, female characters, started in 1981.

After Hargreaves' death in 1988, his son, Adam Hargreaves, continued writing and illustrating new stories involving Mr. Men and Little Miss characters. His works are inspired by his father's works.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I love to read fairy tales when I was young. Before I read “The Little Prince”, I think it would be like the story “Blue Diamond Prince”. However, after reading the story, it was totally different and the story told me lots of things to be considered in my life.

I think it must be a process. When you are getting old, you have to consider lots of things: career, monies, family, relationship, friendship, health… etc. I believe most of us would believe that everything is not enough. When you earn your first ten thousand, you want to have a million. When you have a flat with 40 sq.m., you want to have a flat with 100 sq.m. You have a stable relationship for a long time, you suddenly want to have another one which you consider he/she must be better. Your life would be a process of running for more. Simple things become complicate.

“The Little Prince” is not a book for children because it is not a simple story. Children only think simple things but “The Little Price” tells you complicate things.

Signed off, Doris...

The Dinosaur Search & Find Book AND Back to School with Franklin

These are Ricardo da Luz's favourite books. He likes them a lot beacuse he likes animals. He likes "The Dinosaur Search & Find Book" very much. He loves dinosaur especially.

Ricardo's mummy, Catherine recommends Franklin's book series. She thinks that they are very educational for her children.

Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah

Through this memoir, Falling Leaves, Adeline illustrated the complexities of Chinese society and an affluent Chinese family... endurance, ultimate triumphant...

Adeline's mother died two weeks after she was born. Her widowed father then married Niang('Mother'), her stepmother. Adeline was despised from childhood, emotionally abused by Niang, even after Niang's death... and discovered letters in Niang's room...

Adeline finally discovered her father's will which Niang has hidden. His fortune was to be equally divided among his children including Adeline. The story ends happily, knowing that she was not forgotten...