{"id":16162,"date":"2004-02-01T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/01\/1750.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:20","slug":"book-report-readaloud-books-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/01\/book-report-readaloud-books-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Read-aloud Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the second half of January, Your Humble Blogger read to his Perfect non-Reader ...\n\n<ul><li>Rosemary Wells, <i>Don&#8217;t Spill It Again, James<\/i>; the title story, along with <I>Skokie<\/I> and <I>Goodnight, Sweet Prince<\/I>. Up to her standard.<\/li>\n<li>Else Holmelund Minarik, <i>A Kiss for Little Bear<\/i>; a sweet story with lots of kissing. And Sendak illustrations, of course.<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Sendak, <i>Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water<\/i>; two obscure nursery rhymes, Sendak-ized (Sendakated?) to no particular purpose. I had high hopes, as his <I>Down and Out with Jack and Guy<\/I> was so disturbingly brilliant.<\/li>\n<li>Maurice Sendak, <i>In the Night Kitchen<\/i>; possibly the best children&#8217;s book ever. Possibly the best book ever. I never get tired of it. OK, I do, but it takes twenty or thirty readings. Avoid the surprisingly weak Peter Schickele narration in the Scholastic video.<\/li>\n<li>Jan and Stan Berenstain, <i>Inside, Outside, Upside Down<\/i> and <I>Big Bear, Small Bear<\/I>; I loathe the Berenstain Bears, but my Perfect One likes &#8217;em.<\/li>\n<li>Stan &amp; Jan Berenstain, <i>Berenstains&#8217; C Book<\/i>; inferior to the A book and the B book. No, really.<\/li>\n<li>Alma Flor Ada, <i>Daniel&#8217;s Mystery Egg<\/i>; Seemed good, but not a hit.<\/li>\n<li>Alexa Brandenberg, <i>I Am Me!<\/i>; Again, not a hit, and I don&#8217;t know why.<\/li>\n<li> Kevin Henkes, <i>Circle Dogs<\/i>; This one wasn&#8217;t a hit, and I didn&#8217;t like it much myself.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Lopshire, <i>New Tricks I Can Do!<\/i>; The biggest hit of the cycle. An immense talking dog who can ride a unicycle and shoot baskets worries about his job security in the circus. Not for grown-ups.<\/li>\n<li>Jane Breskin Zalben, <i>Papa&#8217;s Latkes<\/i>; some people just can&#8217;t let go of Hanukkah.<\/li>\n<li>Beatrix Potter, <i>Giant Treasury of Beatrix Potter<\/i> including &#8220;The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit&#8221;, &#8220;The Story of Miss Moppet&#8221;, &#8220;The Tale of Tom Kitten&#8221;, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck&#8221;, and &#8220;The Roly-Poly Pudding&#8221;; Not successful with the non-Reader, despite plenty of sex and violence.<\/li>\n<li> Deborah Kovacs, <i> When is Saturday?<\/i> featuring Grover and other Sesame Street Muppets; Quite a favorite, and actually helpful in learning the days of the week.<\/li>\n<li>Jon Stone, <i>Would You Like to Play Hide &amp; Seek in This Book with Lovable, Furry Old Grover?<\/i>;Brilliant and a big favorite. Reminiscent of the author&#8217;s masterpiece, <I>Monster at the End of This Book<\/I>. Introduce toddlers to meta-jokes a la Sesame Street!<\/li>\n<li>Trinka Hakes Noble, <i>Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch<\/i>; better than either of her <I>Jimmy&#8217;s Boa<\/I> books we read, tho&#8217; the non-Reader appears to disagree.<\/li>\n<li>Megan McDonal, <i>The Night Iguana Left Home<\/i>; not really memorable.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Seuss, <i>On Beyond Zebra<\/i>;I know there are bad Dr. Seuss books, and super-brilliant ones, but this, like many of them, is just run-of-the-mill great.<\/li>\n<li>Gabrielle Vincent, <i>Bravo, Ernest and Celestine<\/i>; One of the noticeable things about this series is the big bear&#8217;s matter-of-fact poverty; in this one they turn street musicians to pay for needed roof repairs.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n<p>... and a bunch of nursery rhymes, including A. A. Milne&#8217;s, and a couple of Brer Rabbit stories, and at least one book read in the library and instantly forgotten. And, as will always be the case with these lists, there are things I&#8217;ve forgotten, too.\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t belong on this list, but our non-Reader now knows that Interjections show Excitement or Emotion.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second half of January, Your Humble Blogger read to his Perfect non-Reader &#8230; Rosemary Wells, Don\u2019t Spill It Again, James; the title story, along with Skokie and Goodnight, Sweet Prince. Up to her standard. 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