This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Book by Laura Krauss Melmed is a perfect Thanksgiving book.  The illustrations are beautiful and the portrayal of the peoples is accurate (trust an ex-Plimoth Plantation worker!).  Also, there are hidden bunnies on almost every page.  Ivy loves looking for the bunnies.  Looking for a Thanksgiving gift?  Look no more!

Who knew there were so many books with suilline heroines?  Lucille is not just another pig - she has spunk!  When left behind on a camping trip because she is "too little",  Lucille makes the best of the situation and camps in with her mom.  It ended up being so much fun, she was glad she stayed home.  Ivy recommends Lucille Camps In by Kathryn Lasky!

I am not sure what all the hype is about The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, but Ivy sure seems to like it.  The plot and pictures are great, but the text itself could be better.  Ivy is really interested in the page with wolves as well as the scene when all the children get hot chocolate.  At any rate, it is one of her first holiday books.  The countdown til Christmas begins! 

Llama Llama

Last night Ivy and I were at Tatnucks, and Ivy had me read every Llama, Llama book by Anna Dewdney in the store.  She just adores them.  The llama behaves in a toddler typical fashion, something she relates to easily.  One of her favorites is Llama, Llama Misses Mama.  She makes her daddy read it when I am away.

An oldie but goodie...Ivy has enjoyed Jane Yolen's and Mark Teague's How Do Dinosaurs? for quite some time, but this week we have read How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? a lot.  She loves the names of the dinosaurs and laughs at them eating their food.  The rhymes are adorable.

Ivy just loves Holly Hobbie's Toot and Puddle series.  In Toot and Puddle Top of The World, Puddle goes off to France on a whim looking for his missing friend, Toot.  The pictures are adorable, and Ivy loves piggies.  What more could she ask for?