Rattletrap Car--Phyllis Root

I really enjoy the language of this book. "Poppa turned the key/brum, brum, brum,/fizzely, sizzely/wappity, bappity/lumpety, bumpety" etc. I read this consistently to my two year old daughter over a period of 2 months, and recently she picked it up and read it to me! Not that she did this word for word, but she got the gist of the story right. Kids will have fun making engine noises, identifying animals, and wondering how the family is going to fix the old car that keeps falling down so they can make it to the lake. A great summer book!

BUZ--Richard Egielski

I love this book! Buz, a bug, gets swallowed with breakfast one morning. As he tries to find his way out he ends up behind the eyes, and later hides as two Keystone Cop like pills try to find him. Only saved by the rising waters of the bathtub, he floats out of an ear, and worse yet, the poor little guy ends up with germ.

A class of Head Start students loved this book too! They demanded this book over and over again, and wisely I carried it with me. Over a period of eight weeks every time I came to read they demanded that I read this book first. Normally at Head Start we shared two or three books at most, but when Buz became a favorite suddenly we were sharing four books a session with students often asking if I could stay and read more. Now that's a testimonial you can trust.