Haiku Baby

Title:Haiku Baby
Author: Betsy Hodge
Publish Date: May 27, 2008
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 14
ISBN: 0375843957

Price: $6.99
Classification: Board Book
Notable Features: Bilingual

Annotation: Travel through the natural world with whimsical haikus, Japanese parallels, and bright artwork in this light-hearted, exploratory board book.

Evaluation: Enjoy this book in play time and read-aloud with baby. As your child's developmental milestone progress, introduce poetry and a second language to your child's early literacy literacy adventure. The Board Book style allows Pre-Literacy babies and toddlers to explore holding and using a book without ripping pages.

Author Website:

http://betsysnyder.blogspot.com/

Eensy Weensy Spider

Title: Eensy Weensy Spider
Author: Mary Anne Hoberman & Nadine Bernard Westcott
Publish Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0316734128

Price: $6.99
Classification: Picture Book, Songs and Music

Annotation: In this book, long time favorite fingerplay song, Eensy Weensy Spider, is extended to include longer lyrics, new friends, and new fingerplays.

Evaluation: This book includes music, fingerplay directions, and games to play. The book is perfect for families new to fingerplay or for families who love the original song and want more. Seeing the song in print supports print awareness and the fingerplay songs supports fine motor skills and sequence and order, just to name a few.

Author Website: http://www.maryannhoberman.com/

The Napping House

Title: The Napping House

Author: Audrey Wood

Price: $25.95

Pages:

• • 32 pages

• • Publisher: Harcourt Big Books; 1 edition
  • Publishing Date: May 15, 1991
  • ISBN-10: 0152567119

Classification: Picture Book

Annotation: In this napping house, EVERYONE is napping...in one big pile! But what happens when one character wakes up? THEY ALL WAKE each other up!

Evaluation: There is so much to do with this simply amazing sleep-time tale, I don't know where to begin. First of all, as everyone falls asleep its raining and dark. As the story goes forward, and everyone wakes up in the hysterical domino effect, it ends on a sunny, rainbow day! Developmentally appropriate angles abound within these pages that can be taken advantage of here. A parent or librarian can do picture walks, talk about colors, predict, and of course, this is a great naptime and bedtime story! Definitely not to be missed!

Author Website: http://www.audreywood.com/