Welcome!

Welcome to my brand new blog, created for Vivian Vasquez's Critical Literacy class! So far all I've done is create a working list of my favorite children's picture books. I'm a huge children's picture book aficionado and have been meaning to do this for years. I'm glad to have the excuse now, as the titles are beginning to fade a bit from memory as my kids get older. I started out my parenting life (back in 1995) without a good library or good leads and spent the first year or so of motherhood bored senseless with the books that we had. I'm a firm believer that shared parent-child pursuits should be fun for both the parent and the child -- that we parents shouldn't fall into a pattern of faking it, so I've selected books that were rich for both my kids and me time after time. Some are better than others; quite a few feature animals in starring roles; many have humor, and most have some sort of hook into a child's emotional life, which tends to be an important theme for me in parenting. Enjoy, and thanks for reading : )