At the moment our favorite is Going on a Bear Hunt. We use our arms to swish through the grass and get our feet stuck in the mud… our 19m/o’s favorite thing to point out on each page is the dog, though!
i always liked the one about the ducklings. That might be the name of it. I would know it if I saw it. It was an older book and my Gramae used to read it to me. I especially loved it because we had pet ducks on our farm.
You know, I think that How to Draw a Bird might be the only children’s book I’ve heard of that is about art. And my Charlotte LOVES art. One of the things I like most about her daycare is that they had her doing art projects even when she was as young as 4 months old, and she love, love, loves it.
So if I don’t win, maybe that will be her Christmas book this year.
My favorite is Red Sings From Treetops By Joyce Sidman; Pamela Zagarenski. Unfortunately after reading it constantly for about a month my daughter (19 months) has moved on to other books to obsessively read, but I miss Red!
My son is only 9 months so all he really wants to do is eat books, but I’ve always enjoyed The Hungry Caterpillar. . . .I’m really going to like your reviews since I have so few friends with kids. I need some good recommendations!
My girls current favorite book is The Big Red Barn. They love to point to the animals and make the corresponding animal sounds. We also talk about the crops in the field. One of my all time favorites.
The Giving Tree is a classical favorite. We are still working hard on our book collection here.
We love Discovering Nature’s Alphabet—beautiful photos!
The Giving Tree is super special in this house. It was my husband’s favorite book as a kid—the first one he learned to read on his own, and consequently his favorite one to read to his 3 younger siblings. when Matthew started to learn how to read just before turning 3, it was of the utmost importance to my husband that The Giving Tree be his third birthday gift. He can’t read the whole thing yet, but we take turns reading pages together - my husband, then me, then Matthew. I’ll remember reading this story together forever.
I do own and love The Giving Tree but never really thought of it as a book about nature. I don’t think I really have any books about nature or art. The closest I can think of is Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boot. My Joanna loves this story.
We love The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We read it almost every day. Lil loves to “read” the books when we are done, especially this one.
Eric Carlile- Brown Bear. I’m always imagining the behind the scenes efforts of how to make the animals look as they do.
We like the Little Golden Book, Farm Animals and The Shy Kitten. I’ve had these books since I was little and I love reading to my girls the stories that I begged 100x to be read.
I am new to reading about Charlotte and your adventures! I went through all your old book reviews and now have a wonderful selection to borrow and buy. One of our favorite that I think constitutes as being about art is Beautiful Oops!
Yea! Your giveaways are back! I love the book, “On the Day you were born.“ It’s awesome!
Lately we’ve been reading Guess How Much I Love You? quite a bit. My 19 month old and I both enjoy the illustrations of the hares.
Bugoves the wide mouth frog. It’s a pop up book. She also likes the hungry caterpillar. I try to read to her little 8 month old wild child self as much as possible. But its getting increasingly hard to get her to sit still. And she wants to do everything herself now. I love watching her leaf through the pages on her own.
I’m so glad you’re back to reviewing children’s books - we’re slowly growing our 15 month olds library and are always looking for new books. I love The Curious Garden although it’s still not a hit with my son…yet :)
Hmm.. lots of our books have themes that incorporate nature… and it’s hard to pick a favorite.
You suggested “Me, All Alone at the end of the world” and there was a very long period of time when that book would be read at least once a day in our house.
The Lorax also has a nature preservation theme and even thought it takes it’s turn going in and out of our most frequently read pile, it’s without a doubt one of MY favorite children’s books. Ever.
600 black spots and the rest of the collection by David A. Carter are great art books for kids and adults, my whole family loves them!
My son (25mo) loves Let’s Grow a Garden.“ Really he loves all of the Gyo Fujikawa books. The illustrations are simple and easy for him to understand.
Does “The Giving Tree” count as a nature book!! Love Love Love that book!!
One of my very favorite books about art is David Wiesner’s fairly new title “Art and Max.“ Art and Max are two lizard buddies who are very different. Art is a serious artiste and Max is fun loving and wild. Hilarity and chaos ensures when Max tries to take over the paintbrush to make a portrait of his friend. The illustrations are just wild as they cycle through different art styles and messy paint, and it’s a ton of fun. My 5 year old nephew really digs it.
YEAH, so glad you are doing this again, thank you!!!!
Right now my little one is hooked on Clare Beaton books - how big is a pig - from an early giveaway - so thank you again! also how loud is a lion and theres a cow in my cabbage patch…love them!
One of my favorite children’s book artists is Tommie dePaola. I love “The Art Lesson” as it is a wonderful children’s story that is basically an autobiography about how he was encourged at a young age to make art. If you haven’t checked that one out, I highly recommend it!
Question: Has Charlotte always been gentle with non-board books? We try non-board books with my 22-month son, but he’s prone to rip the pages. Just wondering if we’ll see a turning point anytime soon or if it’s more just different personalities at play.
We found a nice one at the library the other day: Little Green by Keith Baker. About a hummingbird and a painter who is watching it and records its flight. Very pretty book.
our current favorite is AFairy Went A-Marketing by Rose Fyleman. the pictures are so beautiful. and the story has a nice message.
We love the very hungry caterpillar and the big red barn. I love reading with my little man because it gives me such a good excuse for some extra cuddle time :).
We like the illustrations in Make Way for Ducklings. That area of Boston is just so beautiful.
Our favoriye nature book is Sunshine on My Shoulders by John Denver
“planting a rainbow”. love that book, and it’s gorgeously illustrated.
When i went to Paris a few years back, we visited the Louvre and when we got to the souvenir shop there were so many children’s books related to art and nature i couldn’t resist picking some up. One of my daughter’s favorite is called “Le pique-nique de Gaspard et Lisa”...all the illustrations are painted and as the title suggests the story is about a family’s experience going on a picnic. My daughter lets me read it to her in french even though she doesn’t quite understand yet! Another one i got which seems to really interest my son at the moment is called :“Les 5 sens au Musee”.. there aren’t too many words but all the illustrations are pieces of art from the Louvre (sculpture, painting, etc) and they fit them all in categories according to our senses. My son loves that!
Molly—I have wanted Art and Max from the first time I saw it at Barnes and Noble! I started flipping through it, and I couldn’t stop. I’m ashamed to say that I have no real art books for my children… :-(
(nudge, nudge…) ;-)
I have a 3 year old boy and a 1 year old boy, so I’ll give you our favorite “Art” books for each age. For my 3 year old, it’s the book “Art” by Patrick McDonnell. It’s simple, creative, cute, and as they say, has some freewheeling energy. It has some rhymes, too, which my son loves.
For the little guy, he is obsessed with our Touch the Art: Pop Warhol’s top book (we LOVE the touch the art series). Of course, the favorite page is the last icky sticky mustard bread one. I love that it incorporates modern art, and letting the kids “explore” the paintings. Simple, but really fun.
Does “Press Here” by Herve Tulle count as art? I think it should it doesn’t! Although my little guy can’t follow the instructions just yet, it won’t be long before we get more fun out of it than just the asthetics!
We love the very hungry caterpillar!
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One of our favorites that we got from the library a few weeks ago is Marie-Louise Gay’s Stella, Fairy of the Forest. My little girl loves to pick out the snails (NAI!), butterflies (BUH-FLE), and dog (AR AR!) on each page. Sweet story about siblings and an appreciation for nature (and fairies).