Jolly Postman : Or Other People's Letters

The Jolly Postman goes from home to home, delivering letters to such familiar fairytale addresses as "Mr. and Mrs. Bear, Three Bears Cottage, The Woods." Every other page is an actual envelope, with a letter tucked inside.



The fun never stops from the first letter to the three bears, from Goldilocks, who apologizes for the trouble she's caused and invites Baby Bear to her birthday party. Gal S had tonnes of fun reading the letters, postcard, circular, tucked in their own envelopes for the various familiar fairytale characters.



Mama L

Happy 2010 from Crazymamas

Hi all,

Our blog had been relatively quiet for a while as both mamas were busy with the kids and the holidays. A few mommies had asked us for more recommendations on some of the good books that we'd came across. So, here's gal S current favourite reads:



Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Loved the humor in this preposterous story. Had lots of fun reading this book with gal S, it was great as the rhyming words were fun for gal S who was beginning to learn her blends.

The story is about a mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo. . . .

Gal S also like some of the other titles by Julia Donaldson, like Room on the Broom, Where's My Mom?, The Smartest Giant in Town.



We're Off to Look for Aliens by Colin McNaughton
We picked this book up in the library by chance. Was told that kids just loved the few titles about aliens by Colin McNaughton. I figured like how the Guardian reviewed it, "the intergalactic parade of space oddities, deliciously detailed with mad staring eyeballs, warty pic'n'mix complexions and sink-plunger extremities..." is simply enticing for the young ones.



Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman

Be prepared for lots of giggles and laughter for this book. Even carzy mamas couldn't help but end up in "sitches" while reading this book with our kids.

It’s a totally zany story with some of the silliest illustrations, i.e. when little aliens fly down to Earth, they don’t come to visit because they want to meet the Earthlings. They simply want to steal everybody’s underpants! They like them large or small, they like them red or green—and they like them in all other sizes and colors, too. They think that Mom’s pink, frilly panties are a perfect place to hide. And Grandpa’s woolly long johns make a super-whizzy slide! The text is in verse, the illustrations are big and bright, and kids who open this book will giggle from first page to last.

You could also look out for the other titles by Claire Freeman like Dinosaurs Love Underpants, Aliens in Underpants Saves the World, etc

Mama L