All for Pie, Pie For All – David Martin, illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev

Grandma Cat makes a pie for her family, and after everyone has eaten, there’s one slice left over. Later that night, a family of mice come to the kitchen and decide to eat the slice of pie together. When they’re finished, there’s still some crumbs left, so a family of ants comes along and eats those up. Later when the cats, mice and ants come looking for more pie, they all decide to make more together. A nice story about sharing and making friends.

Bear’s New Friend – Karma Wilson, illustrated by Jane Chapman

I love this series of Bear books, and I adore the illustrations. In this story, Bear hears a noise in the forest and wonders where it came from and who made it. When he figures out that the noise wasn’t made by any of his friends, he gets a little scared and demands to know who it is making the noise. It turns out the noise came from a shy little owl that could use some friends. Cute!

Will and Squill – Emma Chichester Clark

Will is a little boy and Squill is the little squirrel that he has been friends with since they were both very little. But Will’s mom doesn’t want Will to play with that dirty little squirrel and Squill’s mom doesn’t approve of that dirty little boy Will. One day, Will’s mom brings home a kitten for Will, and Squill becomes jealous of Will’s new friend. But Will soon learns that the kitten is cute, but it sure likes to sleep a lot, and that can get boring. He misses his friend Squill, but will Squill take him back as a friend? I can not even begin to say how much I love LOVE loved this book. The illustrations and the story are so adorable, it makes me smile just remembering it.

Easy Street – Rita Gray, illustrated by Mary Bono

A nice rhyming story that illustrates what a strip of land goes through to becomes a road. Little boys that love trucks will like this story. I liked it, too.

A Was Once An Apple Pie – Suse Macdonald

An alphabet concept book that shows what each letter of the alphabet could be — from animals, foods and other things. Nice illustrations.

I saw this meme on Sassymonkey’s blog and thought it would be interesting to do. Turns out I read more than I thought (38/100), and I own more than I realised (36/100). Some of the ones I own are actually my husband’s from before we got married, so just because I own it doesn’t necessarily mean I’ve read it (or will read it) as we have different reading tastes.

Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisks (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.

And here’s something I’m adding myself: a (-) next to the ones you wouldn’t bother with. I thought it was nicer than saying I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. For example, James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces I would never touch with a 10 foot pole because I can’t stand everything that happened with that book and I honestly hate the idea of even trying to read it now. But other books I could stand to touch, but I (probably) will never read. So on with the list… (more…)

Isabella Swan thinks her mother would he happier in her new marriage if she didn’t have to be responsible for her seventeen-year-old daughter. So Bella moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona, where she’s been living with her mother nearly her whole life, to live with her father, the police chief in the small town Forks, Washington. Bella doesn’t like Forks. It rains all the time and sunshine is rare. But she wants her mother to be happy, and she knows her father will be happy to have her live with him. Besides, she figures she can survive a year in the rain before she becomes an adult and goes to college.

All the students in her new high school welcome her, everyone but the stunningly beautiful Cullen family. But Bella soon learns that it’s not just her; the Cullens just prefer to stick to themselves, never making friends with anyone. Something about them seems odd, and Bella is mesmerized, especially by the mysterious Edward Cullen, who is the only Cullen that seems to despise her for some reason that she can’t figure out. Though she wishes she didn’t, Bella can’t help but find herself thinking about Edward and wanting him to like her even though everything he does and says to her suggests that he wishes he were as far away from her as possible. (more…)