More favourite books

We are book crazy around here these days. Maybe it's the dark of the rainy season, but all I feel like doing is curling up with a good book, a cup of tea and possibly a lemon tart, and reading. Preferably in a be-pillowed window seat behind leaded glass windows, but we are short on those two things. I did go to Costco yesterday though, so we have plenty of tea. While I seem to lack the leisure time for my own book-reading, I'm really enjoying reading to Cole. Here are a few of our favourites this week:

365 Penguins - a terrific oversized book full of vivid illustrations. I love this story - a penguin is mysteriously delivered to this family each day for a year. You'll see why! Strange... I just had the most bizzare deja vu about typing this paragraph... The story is pretty long and involves some light math if you want to get into it - great for older kids - but Cole finds the pictures particulary interesting.

And the feel of the paper - he is crazy for paper these days. I had to remind him that it's a library book (we must get our own!), so please get back to destroying my magazines:

We stopped by Duthies earlier this week and found titles to add to our shelves. I should have known it couldn't stop at looking! We found some favourites, including the adorable board book Saffy and a couple others about colours & animals - I can't remember the names now and Cole's napping in the library (aka his room).

We also picked up two books I'd had on my wish list for a while now, The Incredible Book Eating Boy and The Great Paper Caper, by the amazingly talented (and Northern Irish so I'm vastly sentimental about our honeymoon now) Oliver Jeffers.

I couldn't resist the story of Sergio Makes a Splash by Edel Rodriguez. It's so wonderfully minimal in it's use of colour. The story tells of a penguin from Argentina who loves water but is scared to swim. Adorable.

We also got a couple of favourites on the cheap while wasting time yesterday at Costco. Our mission was to buy tea since I had forgotten to go to the "real store" (aka where mustard doesn't come by the gallon), and Costco is sadly the closest grocery store downtown. We left with the tea, 8 pairs of ankle socks, two kinds of cheese, fruit, veg and of course a couple of books. I did manage to leave the kilo of Licorice Allsorts behind. We picked up Yertle the Turtle and Horton Hatches the Egg. Perfect for a day when I was longing for a vacation! ;-) I don't know why, but we didn't have Dr. Seuss around the house growing up, so all these stories are new to me. Man, I couldn't wait for that obnoxious turtle to get his comeuppance.