The reason that I wanted to talk about these two excellent books in tandem today is because one has directly influenced the other. In this episode, we’re going to be talking about two books that my boys love at bedtime and they are … Owl At Home, by Arnold Lobel and Good Night Owl, by Greg Pizzoli. I’ll link them both in the shownotes or you can just go to Episode 15or Episode 16and you’ll find those transcripts. Clark’s more recent book, You Belong Here. In our previous Bedtime Book Episodes, we talked about Margaret Wise Brown’s classic Goodnight Moon and M.H. All of the books I’ve chosen are tried and true favorites in my family and, in addition to all of them being good for building your child’s brain, they will hopefully also help you to get your kids to actually go to sleep.
#Good night owl read aloud series
Hello Everybody! I hope you’re having a wonderful December! Today’s episode is another installment of the series that I’m doing on bedtime books. Note: Books marked with * are the focus books of this episode. Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by Greg Pizzoli RowlingĬhildren’s Literature Grows Up: Harry Potter and the Children’s Literature Revolution by Christina Phillips-Mattson Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsby J.
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It’s key for her success as a reader if your child can start seeing the interconnectivity among books, stories, and characters and start discovering how literature works early on in her reading life. Demonstrating how stories can relate to each other helps to hone your child’s comparison skills and can also help your child later on when she is asked in school to put a work of fiction in historical, social, or literary context. Drawing attention to the connection between books is not only interesting and fun to do as a reader, but it’s also a good way to subtly introduce your child to the concept of intertextuality. We talk about how Greg Pizzoli found inspiration in many of the amusing scenarios, cozy illustrations, and even some of the turns of phrase that are found in Arnold Lobel’s collection of stories about his Owl. SUMMARY:In this third installment of our Bedtime Book Series, we are discussing two excellent, engaging, brain-building bedtime books in tandem: Arnold Lobel’s Owl At Home and Greg Pizzoli’s Good Night Owl because one has directly influenced the other. Nevertheless, it was a hit.Some links are affiliate links. I certainly think a 5 year old can listen to it, but it is not the usual fare and I found that mini recaps of the action before we began each reading session to be extra-helpful. Even the font is "fancified." I do, however, recommend it for more experienced listeners. This is really fun to read aloud because of the fantastical vocabulary and the rhyming couplets. In Spud, however, things are a bit different and when Puggly of Spud and Frannie of Spiff meet up they set out to teach the others a thing or two about what is really important. Well, almost everyone - the Princess prefers pajamas.
The premise is wonderfully silly: in the Kingdom of Spiff everyone is obsessed with fashion, and ridiculously elaborate fashion at that. This delightful novel is written entirely in verse. Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff
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