Danny's Drawing Book by Sue Heap

The special thing about this book is that it looks kind of like a notebook.  Danny and Ettie go to the zoo and decide to draw an elephant and an aardvark.  Once they draw themselves in the story, they fly to Africain a plane.  It looks like Aardvark is flying and Elephant is sitting on a wing with Ettie.  This is a very cute and imaginative book.

 

Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp by Denise Fleming

The funniest thing about this book is how Buster the dog names the humans by their shoes.  His owner is Brown Shoes, who goes away for the weekend.  Mrs. Pink Slippers takes care of Buster's friend Betty, a cat, but she doesn't like dogs too much.  And so Buster is sent to Cowboy Camp where he is looked after by Red Boots.  At first he doesn't think he'll like camp but soon learns he's really good at catch and can't wait for the next day when he'll be digging for gold.  He falls asleep next to Snarkle (a wonderful name for a kind hearted bulldog), drooling right along beside him.

 

The Fish Who Cried Wolf by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

The pictures in this book are stunning.  As I was reading, I could hear Sebastian singing "Under the Sea."  Tiddler is a little fish who tells tall tales when he is late for school.  "I was riding on a seahorse . . . I was flying with a ray . . . I was diving with a dolphin."  One classmate, a fish named Little Johnny Dory, tells the stories to his grandma who tells it to a crab who tells it to . . . As you can imagine, soon all manner of sealife have been exposed to the Tiddler tales.  While Tiddler is thinking up another story one morning, he is captured in a net and then released in the middle of the ocean--lost.  As he hears his own story told to a shoal (!!!) of anchovies, he asks where they heard it and soon he's off on a scavenger hunt for home. 

 

You Were Loved Before You Were Born by Eve Bunting & Karen Barbour

First let me say that Eve Bunting has written waaaaaay too many books.  She's got to secretly be like 5 people.  The illustrations are very Oilily-esque which was just fine with me since I think Oilily's designs are very pretty and colorful.  This is kind of a sappy book, you know the ones that kind of make you say, "Awww."  It's a mom telling a baby about how everyone loved herm and prepared for herm's coming before herm was born.  Herm because I'm not sure if the baby is a boy or a girl.  The sweetest part of the book is when a little cousin sends his 4 favorite baseball cards to the unborn child.