Vintage Book of the Week: When I opened a package from my mother this week and saw this book staring up at me I coudn’t believe I had ever forgotten it! Oh wonderful Mr. Mixie Dough! The author, Vernon Grant, created Snap! Crackle! and Pop! for Rice Krispies and in fact this book is quite valuable if it is good condition. My copy is decidedly not in good condition, which is handy, because it means I will never be tempted to sell it. Check out the photo below: would you not like Mr. Mixie Dough to bake your next birthday cake?
Literacy Posts of the Week:
In Tuesday’s post on how to find early chapter books for your kids I confessed that mine were tips from the parenting trenches, not tips from a literacy expert. There are great literacy experts out there are here is what a few of them have to offer.
- Reading Confetti shares questions children can ask themselves when looking for just the right book to read.
- Scholastic has an article to help parents who are wondering which chapter books are right for their kids.
- My Book Retreat outlines the different stages of reading and offers some book titles for each stage.
Community of the Week:
One of my blogging cohorts, No Twiddle Twaddle, started a G+ community, Great Books for Kids. I hope you will join us over there and contribute to our conversations about (you guessed it) great books for kids. But seriously: it’s a space for sharing book reviews, news, reading activities and more. It’s just getting off the ground and already we’ve had some fun discussions.
Books of the Week:
Mom: The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom. A league of Prince Charmings in action: so, so, soooooo funny.
Kiddo: Choose Your Own Adventure!! It brings back memories to see my son reading these. Also, I feel old.
New Kid: Everything Goes: In the Air. Everything, I tell ya.
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I would LOVE to have a copy of that book! I have a weakness for vintage books. Carly enjoyed Everything Goes too- finding the silly stuff and the birds in hats was lots of fun for her. I remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books too, so I’m old as well!
I believe the next installment is Everything Goes — On Sea (or water, maybe?) so that should be fun.
I would love it too. Sadly the cheapest I have found it online is for $175!!
I’m pretty sure my copy would sell for less (one of the pages just fell out!) than that but I’m never giving it up!
Thanks for sharing the community. But, I really love everything about this round-up. Especially, the vintage book!
I shared it because I love “meeting” and chatting about books with everyone over there. It’s a great group of people.
How coincidental! Karina has recently discovered Choose Your Own Adventure books too, which made my husband all nostalgic, so she’s sharing her books with him. It’s funny to see them sitting, silently choosing their own adventures together.
(Have you seen the history choose-your-own-adventure-ish books? They’re called You Choose Books and they have oodles of interactive history books to choose from. We’ve been using them in our history studies.)
I haven’t seen the You Choose books, yet. Our neighborhood branch library only had a handful of CYOA books on the shelf so we need to put in some hold requests.
Anna got her first Choose Your Own Adventure this week too – I am curious to see how she likes it. You do have some heirlooms from your childhood
We loved The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom. Choose your own adventure books sound great too! My son read the Worst Case Scenario chapter book series where you choose your ending, but we will try Choose Your Own too. Thanks for the book recs!
We haven’t read the Worst Case Scenario books yet, but I suspect my son would like them.
Thank you for the link!
That book looks wonderful!! It looks like it has been well-loved!
VERY well-loved!