Board Book Blog #3

Title: The Rainbow Fish

Author and Illustrator: Marcus Pfister

Publisher: North-South Books

Publication Date: 1999

ISBN Number: 1558585362

Amanda’s Rating: 5/5

Summary: The Rainbow Fish is a board book that tells the tale of a fish with beautiful scales.  Rainbow Fish doesn't want to share his scales with the other fish but soon finds out that no one wants to be his friend because he doesn't share.  He decides to give away his pretty scales and gains friends in the process.

Evaluation: The Rainbow Fish is a colorful book that tells an important story for all children.  Through Rainbow Fish’s story children learn the importance of sharing with others, consequences of not sharing, and the impact that having friends can have on their happiness.  

Board Book Blog #2

Title: Here’s a Happy Pig

Author and Illustrator: Colin and Jacqui Hawkins

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Publication Date: 1987

ISBN Number: 1561484415

Amanda’s Rating: 3.5/5

Summary: Here’s a Happy Pig is an interactive board book about animals. The book has holes in it to allow the reader to wiggle their fingers and almost make the animals come to life.  The book introduces children to different kinds of animals and allows the person reading to them to bring the book to life. 

Evaluation: Here’s a Happy Pig is a fun, quick children’s book that allows parents to use their fingers to add movements to the animals inside.  Young children would be very entertained by the fingers poking through the book that add an element of silliness to it.  It is entertaining while also educating children about what different animals look like.

Board Book Blog #1

Title: The Lady with the Alligator Purse

Author and Illustrator: Nadine Bernard Westcott

Publisher: LB Kids

Publication Date: April 1998

ISBN Number: 978-0316930741

Amanda’s Rating: 4/5

Summary: The Lady with the Alligator Purse is a board book story that involves a baby named Tiny Tim. Tiny Tim drinks his bathwater and eats all his soap while taking a bath one day and his panicked mother calls a doctor, a nurse, and the lady with the alligator purse to help. The lady with the alligator purse has the best recommendation when she suggests pizza as a way to help the child feel better.

Evaluation: The Lady with the Alligator Purse is a fun read with its colorful pictures and rhyming word patterns.  Children will love its elements of silliness, like when Tiny Tim tries to eat the bathtub, and its rhythm of the rhyming sentences that tell the story.