- Chester’s Back by Melanie Watt
- Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies and James Croft
- Willy the Champ by Anthony Browne
- Where Does Thursday Go? by Janeen Brian and Stephen Michael King
- I Do It by Andrew Daddo and Jonathan Bentley
- The Prince of Peas by Sylvie Cahusse and Anne Letuffe
- Doctor Miaows Big Emergency by Sam Lloyd
- King Midas and the Gold Retold by Alex Frith and Simona Sanfilippo
- Pig on the Titanic by Gary Crew and Bruce Whatley
- Count My Kisses, Little One by Ruthie May and Tamsin Ainslie
- Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Bears in the Night by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- The Berenstain Bear Clean House by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- The Gobbling Tree by Mark Carthew and Susy Boyer
- Martha Doesn’t Say Sorry by Samantha Berger and Bruce Whatley
- Looking at Art – ABC Alphabet by National Gallery of Australia
- Little Dog by Katrina Germein and Tamsin Ainslie
I got a lovely reminder letter the other day: please, send your MS Readathon money once it’s collected. Then I had a “Oh, poo” moment, for I’d forgotten all about entering Keira and the paperwork had been stuffed into the filing cabinet. A phone call later, I was assured I could write a donation instead, and I felt much better. Lucky I was still keeping tally from our previous VPRC reading, and so let us say the above books were read for both?
Thank you for assuaging my guilt.
In terms of talking about the stories themselves, I can’t not mention Melanie Watt’s Chester series. Chester’s Masterpiece (a new release, not above) is currently being fought over nearly every bed time. Both kids adore it. I didn’t have the joy of experiencing Where the Wild Things Are as a child, so it was a real treat to be able to discover it at the same time as Keira.
Our local library is re-opening today after three months of renovations. I’ve been told there are lots of new children’s books. It’s very exciting!
