Karl's Reading List

Published by Two Windmills Limited: Woodbridge, UK, 2024. I mean... dinosaurs! I love dinosaurs. So, what's not to love about this book? One Little Dinosaur  is a counting book, working its way from one up to ten, with each page introducing an increasingly large number of dinosaurs, with a descriptive adjective, involved in some sort of activity.  "One little dinosaur counts ten spotty rocks,"  for example. Or,  "Two smart dinosaurs with nine snazzy socks".  There are  bonus  dinosaurs thrown in on one page, when  "Nine dinosaurs roar and two dinosaurs wave,"  meaning that overall we get 57 dinosaurs. What's not to love about that? But, wait. There's more! After counting up to ten dinosaurs, we get a double page spread with  all  of the dinosaurs in one image, along with the various activities that they were involved in, or creatures that they were interacting with. This is a great page to re-count the various dinosaurs, and look fo...

It's been a while since I've acknowledged Ezekiel, so here is another list of picture-books we are reading to him, most of which he is enjoying quite a bit. Now that he is beginning to 'interact' with things a bit more (he's almost a year old!!!), you will notice that a lot of these books have a common element... Karl's List: Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct - Mo Willems. Published by Hyperion Books for Children: New York, NY, 2006. This one is almost a cheat. I have known about this book since it was first published, and love its humour, so recently purchased a copy just so I could read it to Ezekiel and put it on this list. I've only read it to him once so far, and probably won't read it to him much until he's a little older, but I like it, and so here it is! The basic story of Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct is that Edwina is (surprise) a dinosaur who doesn't know she is extinct. She is friends ...