Book Review & GiveAway with MGT!

Mother Goose Time.com  provides a book each month in our curriculum kit. They are of great quality, soft cover book published by Experience Early Learning Company. This little excerpt is in the back of most of the books.

These books are now available on Amazon.com too. But as a Blog Ambassador, I am participating in a Book Review Giveaway sponsored by MGT.

So, you have a chance to win a copy of these three books by entering in the Rafflecopter box below.

Mr A helped me decide which books to review. I laid out all 15 that we have and had him pick his favorites. I couldn't choose myself. He had 5 picked out, but I had him to reduce his list to 3.

Book #1
There's a Cow in My House (words by Brian Steckler pictures by Chris Lensch)
Mr A chose this book because the cow drinks from a cup

This book has a whimsical feel. The illustrations are light and friendly. The layout is fun. The pages alternate between words/ illustrations and illustrations only. The illustrations show the cow doing several human activities. We giggled at the cow doing silly things.

Mr A thought it was so amusing to have such a large animal acting like a person. It's fun to imagine things in ways that they aren't usually. While reading, I kept asking Mr A if a cow could really fit behind a chair or stack blocks and so on. NO! he would yell.

There's a Cow in My House also has a music page. It is a great addition to introducing little ones to sheet music. This book can be sung as a song! How fun. If I was better at playing our piano, I could probably figure the tune out.

Book #2
Timber! (story by Leslie Falconer and Chris Lensch pictures by Chris Lensch)
Mr A chose this book because the lumberjack gave back trees and was growing new ones

This book has a fun repetitive feel. A few phrases are all throughout the book each time the lumberjack cuts down a tree. It is about a lumberjack that cuts down trees but then realizes what he is doing is wrong and replaces the ones he has cut down.

Your little one will also be counting throughout the book. Timber! asks the kids to recount the trees each time one is cut down.

In the illustrations. you notice that the lumberjack is using the wood from the cut-down trees to build his own home while taking the homes of the animals at the same time. His house is progressing while the trees and homes of the animals are diminishing.

Timber! also has a unique song and music to go along with the story. Again, music makes the heart grow fonder. lol.

Also included in this book, is a Did You Know? page. It has extra facts about trees to push the learning a little further.

Book #3
Beatriz, Bananas and the Very Big Hat (adapted by Leslie Falconer pictures by Chris Lensch)
Mr A chose this book because the monkeys do what Beatriz does. This is Mr A's favorite book and he made sure that I include it.

We received this book in our unit My Amazing Body back in September 2014. It was the first one we received and maybe my favorite because of that.
Every time I read this book to the boys, I think of Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina.
It is about a girl who makes straw hats to sell at the market. On the way she gets tired, falls asleep and wakes up to find that monkeys had stolen all of her hats. They copied whatever she did. She was hungry from waking up so early and angry at those monkeys. Then Beatriz ate a banana. She felt better and had the idea of making the copying monkeys into a game to get her hats back. She needed proper nutrition to think clearly and be happy.

In Beatriz, Bananas and the Very Big Hat, one of the pages has pictures of different animals in the forest. Next to them are the written words of the sounds that they make. We like imitating animal sounds here at our house.

These were additional books that Mr A really likes from Mother Goose Time. So please go check them out too on Amazon.
Chimidyue: a folktale of the Amazon Rainforest (retold by Leslie Falconer pictures by Chris Lensch) [chim-ID-yoo-a]
Mr A chose this book because she turns into a real butterfly to fly back home
Does a Bear Wear a Hat in the Winter (by Leslie Falconer and Kelly Nogoski illustrated by Kelly Nogoski)
Mr A chose this book because its funny

Now, if you go back and read why Mr A chose each book, his reasons are mostly about the storyline. I found that interesting. But, I did also notice that all of the books have the same illustrator and have a similar look.

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