Do you remember OWL Magazine? My elementary school library had a subscription to the “Entertaining, Informative, Challenging, and Inspiring Magazine for Preteens,” and I always raced to be first to borrow the new issue. I still remember lying on my bed reading through the whole thing as soon as I got home from school.
Owlkids Books has been publishing children’s magazines as well as a complete line of children’s books for over 35 years now. Owlkids recently released their 2015 spring catalogue, and our friends there kindly sent us a few new releases to share with you. Check out these brand new children’s books and don’t forget to scroll all the way down to enter to win this same collection!
Prickly Jenny by Sibylle Delacroix
This small book is perfect for reading with one or even both kids in my lap. Prickly Jenny captures the reality of living with a toddler who doesn’t know what she wants, but she knows she wants it now. I think I almost enjoy this book more than the kids. I live with Jenny – two of her in fact. They think Jenny is funny, but they don’t quite get why I find her so funny.
LOOK! by Édouard Manceau
This novelty book features a die-cut hole in the middle of the book that invites kids to look through and find objects to match various colours and shapes, or to find shiny things, loud things, or letters and numbers. Both my kids love this one. Tee reads it to Kay, and then they both look through the “window”. There’s an occasional head bonk when they try to look through at the same time, but they love playing anyway!
The Candy Conspiracy: A Tale of Sweet Victory by Carrie Snyder, illustrated by Claudia Dávila
The Juicy Jelly Worm is the tyrant of Candyville. Even though the trees are made of chocolate and the rivers run with root beer, he won’t let the children of Candyville have even one bite of candy. But when the children come up with a secret plan to raise a garden full of yummy vegetables like sugar snap peas, candy cane beets, and sweet potatoes, maybe they’ll finally get to enjoy something sweet!
This book is so much fun to read aloud. We like to yell out “Juicy Jelly Worm!” and Tee loves to pore over each page examining and exclaiming about all the candy details. (Sorry, love, it’s just not going to happen in real life.)
And What If I Won’t? by Maureen Fergus, illustrated by Qin Leng
When Benny’s mother asks him to put his plate in the sink, he asks her, “And what if I won’t?” As Benny comes up with increasingly ridiculous misbehaviours, he wants to know what his mother will do with him. She reluctantly gives him to the zoo, sells him to the circus, and eventually sends him to the moon. But mothers love their children, even their naughty ones, so in the end she welcomes him home with a big hug. But he still has to put his plate in the sink!
Wild Ideas by Elin Kelsey, artwork by Soyeon Kim
I was a big fan of the first joint project by Dr. Elin Kelsey and Soyeon Kim, You Are Stardust, so I was really excited to check out their latest collaboration. Did you know that squirrels learn how to cross roads from watching people do it? Or that humpback whales work together to catch fish by blowing a net of bubbles?
Dr. Kelsey’s prose encourages children to learn from the problem-solving skills of the animals around us, and Kim’s incredibly detailed paper dioramas illustrate the beauty of the natural world. Tee is fascinated by the intriguing things that animals do in their search for solutions, and I love how the material reinforces her connection with nature.
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My daughter has a few favorites, her most favorite being “Thank You Bear”. She also loves Ladybug Girl books, and Llama Llama Nighty Night! Sometimes if we read it during the day she says “no go sleepies now!” after we finish it. Haha 🙂
Little too young right now to have a favorite but I love “Giraffes Can’t Dance” and any Piggie and Elephant book
He loves the book “I Love You Stinky Face” and “Guess How Much I Love You”. BUt he is always making new choices and having new favorites!!
Goodnight moon
My baby isn’t born yet, but my favorite from childhood is the very hungry caterpillar.
My son likes The Runaway Bunny best right now. He does have other favourites, though.
My kids always liked any of the Dr. Suess books- loves the rhyming words and silly pictures.
A favourite at bedtime has always been Goodnight Moon – even years later!
My granddaughter just loves the Bernstein Bears books. She has memorized parts and reads it back to us and she is only 3 1/2! She just loves to be read to all the time!
The Gruffalo, a book my grandchildren love too. It’s very simple and repetitive so the children soon repeat the sentences whilst you’re reading.
my kiddo’s favourite story is Goodnight Train or Tootle
My son loves for us to read in his Spark Bible every night and my daughter loves any Frozen book.
Goodnight Moon. thanks
The Cat in the Hat
My granddaughters favorite book is frozen.
My daughter likes the Biscuit the dog series.
My son likes anything Thomas, or “Night Night Little Pookie” by Sandra Boynton.
Our all-time favourite is Goodnight Moon. My little guys and I read all kinds of books otherwise from seasonal ones to ones with their favourite characters like Scooby Doo.
My son loved the Goosebump series.
My granddaughter likes anything Dora at the moment. It change all the time.
A favourite was The Kissing Hand.
We love reading bible stories together.
My kids really love the books written by Graeme Base. We have 6 or 7 and he has many more. We havent come across one that we dont like!
i My great-grandchildren are being read to now at bedtime and other times. A favorite is ” i love you to the Moon and Baack.-and any of the Dr. Seuss books like : Hop on Pop’ and ‘The Cat in the Hat.’
My son’s favorite bedtime books are goodnight gorilla and the going to bed book.
My children loved the Dr. Suess books. The cat in the hat was their favourite one .
The Gruffalo is our fave.
My kids like hearing stories from when my husband and I were kids.
Currently my daughter loves to read “I’m a Big Sister.” Her sibling is due in a few weeks!
My son loves Goodnight Moon
ZOOM by Robert Munsch
My grandson loves “How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You”
We do a bedtime story and a Bible story (usually from the “Bible Stories that End with a Hug” book).
Some of her bedtime story favourites include: Sweet Dreams, Maisy (Cousins); The Going to Bed Book (Boynton); The Runaway Bunny (Wise-Brown); and On The Night You Were Born (Tillman).
My child’s favourite bedtime story is Guess How Much I Love You.
My little girl loves “Sleepy Kittens.” It’s from Despicable Me!
My daughter loves Good Night Moon. It was the first book she was ever gifted and she adores that bedtime story.
For my girls it was the Dr. Suess books, not really one book in particular, there was a few of them that they liked, and the Winnie the Pooh!!
My eight month old daughter’s favorite bedtime story is Ten Tiny Babies. She squeals after every page but when we get to the last page, I whisper the last words, “all ten babies are fast asleep” and she gets real quiet to listen. She knows that means bedtime.
Susannah of the Mounties, an old hoary classic
where the wild things are is my son’s favourite bed time story 🙂
Right now my oldest daughter is really into The Berenstain Bears. She used to love Good Night Moon, Snuggle Up Sleepy Ones, and anything Frozen. My youngest likes her Sophie the Giraffe book before bed. 🙂
The Kids love a lot of books and we read different ones each night (unless they want a repeat). Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of “Huggly” and his adventures. Kids can never have enough books. Love Owlkids!
Besos, Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
Right now the favourite bedtime story is “I Need To Go” by Robert Munsch
Pout pout fish – we read it every.single.night.
He doesn’t really have a favorite yet, but mommy’s favorite is the kissing hand.
My son has a few favourites! He likes How do Dinosaurs say I love you,a signlanguage book and Hop on Pop,
We love Noisy Nora, by Rosemary Wells. It’s such a great story!
Good Night Moon
My daughter likes Barbie books and my son enjoys Mother Goose
Current, and repeated here and there, favorite is Piggies.