Picture books for advanced readers

[Krista G]

We got There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie on our trip to the library last week.  Such a cute book.  I will look up the other right now.  I love the recommendations I keep getting here.  Thanks!

[Krista G]

Who is If the Shoe Fits by?  I see more than two choices at the library.

[Kerileanne99]

If the Shoe Fits by Alison Jackson!

http://www.amazon.com/If-Shoe-Fits-Alison-Jackson/dp/0805064664/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341752973&sr=1-4&keywords=if+the+shoe+fits

It really is adorable Krista G!

[Krista G]

Perfect!  Thank you so much!!  I got to view a few pages of Room on the Broom through Amazon.  It looks super cute, but the wait is undetermined at my library.

[2010BEBES]

Krista,

Thanks for mentioning : Room on the Broom. I read the amazon pages and think it is very nice to teach for kids that has english as a foreign language.  Karma to you.

[kiwimum]

Thanks for this post, I've just turned it into a bit of a list so those that want to can take this list to the library and also a list of Authors to keep an eye out for.


Fancy Nancy ( all of them are great!)

Giraffes can't Dance, Giles Andrede. 

Commotion in the Ocean, same series as above.

Henry and the Fox, Chris Wormell

The Pear in the Pear Tree, Pamela Allen. 

One Blue Sock, Stephen Michael King.

A Particular Cow, Mem Fox,
 
Tickle Monster and Boogie Monster by Josie Bissett

Stand Back Said the Elephant, I am Going to Sneeze! By Patricia Thomas

The Pout, Pout Fish by Deborah Deissen

Born To Read by Judy Sierra

Wild about Books! By Judy Sierra
 

Recommended Authors:

Mem Fox
Pamela Allan
Karma Wilson
Julia Donaldson
Tony Mitton
Beatrix Potter
Lynley Dodd
Shirley Hughe
Alison Jackson

Off to the Library I go!!

[arvi]

Keri, you always find brilliant books and thanks for sharing it with us. Could you please consolidate all your future book finds and other resources in one single thread so that it is easy for us to look through. Thanks.

[seastar]

Some recent hits:

Have you ever ever ever? Colin McNaughton
My Granny went to market. Stella Blackstone - I love this one as it brings together counting & geography in a lovely story

[Kerileanne99]

I love this thread!
Also take a look at the books by Chris Van Dusen...our absolute favorites are the Mr. Magee books!
A bit more difficult are the Mercy Watson series written by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen. They are actually more like beginning chapter books, but with great bright pictures like a true picture book and the 'chapters' can be read as individual stories...they also still have oversized print and not too many words per page, which can still be daunting for LO
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=chris+van+dusen&sprefix=Chris+Van%2Cstripbooks%2C595

We also love Audrey Wood books.  We have a set of three books based around the alphabet (Alphabet Mystery, Alphabet Rescue, Alphabet Adventure) that Alex has read over and over again.  Very cute.  The Napping House is also fun.

Arvi-
Maybe I can do one better! Rather than bore fellow BrillKids member with the exploits of Alex, I am almost putting together a blog for her. I actually intended it just to be more of a record log and for family abroad, but will put the site into my signature area as soon as it is ready, possibly as soon as this weekend. I can't promise regular updates But, I will put in a running list of our picture books as well!

BTW- I also get ideas from Krista G.  We tend to go for many of the same types of books, and she is fantastic at finding picture books from a diversity of cultures.  She posts a monthly reading list as well:
http://teachingbabytoread.com/

[Kerileanne99]

Okay!
I am returning to this thread as we are getting quite desperate for new recommendations! We have been checking out nearly 40 books per week from the library, and have just about exhausted the ready supply...she will read them over and over when we have them, finds a few she does not want to return, and won't revisit many of them...it is strange, she seems to have quite a memory for them! She will take a look at a prospective cover, and whine..."No! That's the one where the ....I don't want to read it again!"

So, a few of our recent favorites:
I ordered several of the UK Angelina Ballerina books, by Katherine Holabird...Alex adores these, and whilst the stories are fairly mundane, the pictures and vocabulary are not.  I just ordered as many as I could find as she really seems to enjoy them.
Note: the US has done a singularly annoying spinoff of these, so I would encourage you to find the Katherine Holabird books.
I have been doing a much more difficult read-a-loud session of more advanced books for 'quiet time' and she is taking to it quite well.  We have read original Beatrix Potter, Paddington Bear, and she LOVES the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Series by Betty MacDonald.

Still! We are in dire need of new recommended books and authors, so please help!

Oh! I think I mentioned a fantastic book called "Stand Back Said the Elephant, I am Going to Sneeze!" By Patricia Thomas and Wallace Tripp...
We recently bought several Wallace Trip books, and they are beautiful as well:
Some favorites:
Sir Toby Jingle's Beastly Journey
Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet

@KristaG-
As always, thanks for your monthly reading list! I think our tastes must run very much along the same lines (as well as the availability in our local libraries )
If you haven't seen the list, definitely take a look:  http://teachingbabytoread.com/

[arvi]

Some of the picture books that we like are:
Mr. Pusskins series by Sam Lloyd
Meeow and the.. series by Sebastien Braun
Charlie and Lola series by Lauren Child
Our current favourites are Usborne's Classic stories for little children; The singing mermaid by Julia Donaldson and Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann.

[Krista G]

Kerileanne - I think you are right.  We like a lot of the same books, and we get all of our books from the library.  We are having to look a lot harder to fill our reading bags these days.  We end up re-reading the same books.  I was thinking of you yestreday because we got a new Judy Sierra book called Wild About You.  I was wondering if you read it.  Gabriella really liked it and refuses to return it yet.  I know you like Wild About Books, so I immediately thought of you.

Thanks for the new recommendations.  I am off to the library website to place some holds.  I hope they have all these.

Is anyone here on Goodreads?  I haven't used the site that much, but I like that I can get recommendations based on books I like.

[Kerileanne99]

Krista!
    
This morning we became desperate as Friday Afternoons I have medical treatments--leaving us a tremendous amount of reading time over the weekend as I recover...
We loaded up, drove to Books-A-Million and bought two large shopping bags of books--including Wild About You by Judy Sierra


I hopefully will have some nice new recommendations over the weekend

[Korrale4kq]

Krista,
So funny you mentioned goodreads. I do have it. I started using it for James to keep track of all the books we borrow from the library. But it didn't do what I wanted it to do.

Instead I have an app on my phone (android) that let's me keep a virtual books shelf for James' books. I can mark them as read, reading, own, wanting to buy, and lend (which I love).

James is currently ploughing his way through multiple series of levelled readers. Like the following series: Step into Reading, Rookie Readers, Green Light Readers, I Can read, Usborne First Readers, and many more.
I currently have all his books maked as reading and I use the rating star to mark each time he reads it. Once he has read it 5 times we return it to the library, or if we own it, we shelve it for a while. I want him to continue reading actively, rather than starting to memorize books, which I know he has been doing.
I also create bookshelves for each series. So i can make notes about books and series we like best. Some series we like better than others. I try to find books at about the same level, but they really aren't equal. The Step into Reading Level 1 books don't make a lot of sense. A Tank Engine is forced to crash into a  barber shop, the barber gets cross and starts to shave him!? James was as baffled as I was.
So it is nice to have all this data on my phone when we go to the library.

[Korrale4kq]

Oh and the app we are using is called mybookdroid. And I can sync it to good reads.

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