So Many Yummy New Books!

Between a trip to the library and a package of books arriving in the mail, yesterday was a banner day for books in our home! 

Honestly there are rather too many for me to list individually, but I'll promise to let you know about the stand out ones for us. 

I actually made this particular library visit today sans children, and it's always so much fun to watch them rifling through the tote bags of new books, and trying to decide which ones they should read first. 

Actually, one of the books that all three children agreed on reading this evening was Let's Be Enemies, by Janice May Udry, Pictures by Maurice Sendak (bottom right in the picture above), because it was so small. What a delightful book it was too! (A great book if you happen to have children who bicker among themselves).

This entire stash, apart from the two Homer Price by Robert McCloskey chapter books, will probably comprise our read-aloud bedtime books for the next week or so, that daily ritual closing out most of our evenings; children tucked in around me, cozy in their PJs and blankies, while I read aloud. (We tend to save our chapter book reading for our homeschool Morning Time, when it is easier for me to read "Just one more chapter, pleeeeeease mama!"

This last picture has the books that arrived in the mail; my eldest son, seven year old Little Guy, is fascinated with birds, animals, and all things engineering, like maps, mechanics and all things of a scientific bent. These three books looked to fit my needs for good quality, non-fiction 'living books'. We'll see ... I'll keep you posted!