Last evening Max and I read
New York, New York!: The Big Apple from A to Z -- by Laura Krauss Melmed (author) and Franc Lessac (illustrator). This is a great read-- it provides a look at all the things to do in NYC with little rhymes and cool illustrations. For about a year we have been trying to do one or two things from the book every time we go to New York. We've gone to the
American Museum of Natural History,
Central Park,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Terminal... and so on. We hope to do everything in the book in the next year or so. It's a very fun way to see the city and equate books with action and real stuff.
We read
Zin, Zin, Zin a Violin-- by Lloyd Moss (Author), Marjorie Priceman(Illustrator). This is an amazing book, a Caldecott honoree and absolutely beautiful. It gives wonderfully melodic rhymes about different instruments in a chamber orchestra and teaches about different configurations-- what is a solo, a duo, a trio, etc. I didn't know until I read this book that a nonet is a group of nine musicians. It also uses the rhymes to discuss the type of sound an instrument makes and the feelings it may evoke in the audience. It's one of my favorites.
We also read
Max's Four Questions by Bonnie Bader (author) and Bryan Hendrix (illustrator). A book about the Jewish holiday of Passover. This book was totally lame. I would not recommend it. The pictures are dull, and the main character is an 8 year old kid who is reading the four questions for the first time and doesn't know anything about passover. This is just silly-- where has he been for the past 6 or seven years, and why is he just reading the four question for the first time? My Max knew the four questions in Hebrew when he was 2, and can answer most of them now. So what's up with this kid. Plus it is poorly written, and the illustrations are gross. Oh well, sometimes we pick some losers... It's hard when you're kid's name is Max and you want to buy him lots of books with his name and lots of books about the Jewish holidays. Sometimes you get trash....
Last evening Max and I read New York, New York!: The Big Apple from A to Z -- by Laura Krauss Melmed (author) and Franc Lessac (illustrator). This is a great read-- it provides a look at all the things to do in NYC with little rhymes and cool illustrations. For about a year we have been trying to do one or two things from the book every time we go to New York. We've gone to the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Terminal... and so on. We hope to do everything in the book in the next year or so. It's a very fun way to see the city and equate books with action and real stuff.
We read Zin, Zin, Zin a Violin-- by Lloyd Moss (Author), Marjorie Priceman(Illustrator). This is an amazing book, a Caldecott honoree and absolutely beautiful. It gives wonderfully melodic rhymes about different instruments in a chamber orchestra and teaches about different configurations-- what is a solo, a duo, a trio, etc. I didn't know until I read this book that a nonet is a group of nine musicians. It also uses the rhymes to discuss the type of sound an instrument makes and the feelings it may evoke in the audience. It's one of my favorites.
We also read Max's Four Questions by Bonnie Bader (author) and Bryan Hendrix (illustrator). A book about the Jewish holiday of Passover. This book was totally lame. I would not recommend it. The pictures are dull, and the main character is an 8 year old kid who is reading the four questions for the first time and doesn't know anything about passover. This is just silly-- where has he been for the past 6 or seven years, and why is he just reading the four question for the first time? My Max knew the four questions in Hebrew when he was 2, and can answer most of them now. So what's up with this kid. Plus it is poorly written, and the illustrations are gross. Oh well, sometimes we pick some losers... It's hard when you're kid's name is Max and you want to buy him lots of books with his name and lots of books about the Jewish holidays. Sometimes you get trash....
